JavaScript text recognition and OCR on <canvas>

javascript html5-canvas ocr text-recognition
Elie picture Elie · Mar 5, 2013 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

I found a web application that recognizes handwritten math equations:

http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/equation.html?locale=default

I would like to know if someone knows an app or a tutorial or an open source project that implements this mechanism, because getting it from this webapp is really complex.

Note: I just need the equation drawn in the canvas to be translated in an input text box that's all.

Answer

Jack burridge picture Jack burridge · Dec 21, 2013

Tesseract OCR has been ported to JavaScript.

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