implement tesseract OCR in iphone

Question

i want to implement handwriting recognition in my project

for example when user writes A on the screen, then screen should display A,

i had searched on google and so far i have found, tesseract OCR, but i am not getting what is tesseract OCR and how to implement this in my project can someone give demo tutorial of tesseract OCR and i don't know whether tesseract OCR is free or paid ...

can someone give idea about tesseract OCR !!

Answer 1

try this one. http://tinsuke.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/how-to-compile-and-use-tesseract-3-01-on-ios-sdk-5/

there are some old info. https://github.com/rcarlsen/Pocket-OCR