Suggest an OCR Library for iOS

ios iphone image ocr scanning
Vaisakh picture Vaisakh · Jan 3, 2014 · Viewed 25.7k times · Source

I want to make an offline iPhone application that can grab text from a picture. Can anyone suggest the best library which I can use. I heard ZBAR and ZXING can be used only for barcode reading. Is there any other OCR Libraries for iOS to read text from images. I expect your valuable suggestions as soon as possible.

Thanks in Advance..!

Answer

Bhumeshwer katre picture Bhumeshwer katre · Jan 3, 2014

Currenlty offline OCR is possible only with Tesseract

You can get source code here

Here is the good tutorial about how to use Tesseract

Also you can perform OCR on multiple language. You can dowlnoad other language trained data here

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