free OCR processing API in PHP/jQuery/JavaScript

php javascript jquery ocr image-recognition
user1935281 picture user1935281 · Jan 11, 2013 · Viewed 72k times · Source

Is there any free PHP OCR API, that is well documented in PHP, jQuery or JavaScript?

I'm programming a web app for iOS and I'd like to utilize the new photo upload API in iOS 6 safari to use for OCR image processing.

Thanks a ton! :)

(Edit: Oh and a Google-Googles like API for image recognition would also suffice, it doesn't have to be OCR, though I would pefer it. :)

Answer

Stefan picture Stefan · Jan 11, 2013

Tesseract is really simple to use. Someone has even written a PHP wrapper for it so you won't have to deal with the exec() command. Have a look at this here: http://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php

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