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Optical Character Recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.

Handwriting recognition API's for android applications

Is there any good Handwriting recognition API to help develop application on Android Platform? Google has released (around July 2012 http://…

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Most accurate open-source OCR for Japanese?

From your experience, what is the most accurate open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) library/software to read Japanese text? I …

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Tesseract training for a new font

I'm still new to Tesseract OCR and after using it in my script noticed it had a relatively big error …

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Python error when importing image_to_string from tesseract

I recently used tesseract OCR with python and I kept getting an error when I was trying to import image_…

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Tesseract ocr PDF as input

I am building an OCR project and I am using a .Net wrapper for Tesseract. The samples that the wrapper …

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Suggest an OCR Library for iOS

I want to make an offline iPhone application that can grab text from a picture. Can anyone suggest the best …

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How to extract text from image Android app

I am working on a feature for my Android app. I would like to read text from a picture then …

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OpenCV MSER detect text areas - Python

I have an invoice image, and I want to detect the text on it. So I plan to use 2 steps: …

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Is there an OCR library that outputs coordinates of words found within an image?

In my experience, OCR libraries tend to merely output the text found within an image but not where the text …

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How can i use tesseract ocr(or any other free ocr) in small c++ project?

So what I heard after research is that the only solid free OCR options are either Tesseract or CuneiForm. Now, …

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