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Optical character recognition, Optical character reader or OCR is the process of reading printed or handwritten text and converting them into machine-encoded text. OCR is mainly used in the field of artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and computer vision.
OCR can be pretty CPU intensive, you might want to reconsider doing it on a smart phone.
That aside, to my knowledge the popular OCR libraries are Aspire and Tesseract. Neither are straight up Java, so you're not going to get a drop-in Android OCR library.
However, Tesseract is open source (GitHub hosted infact); so you can throw some time at porting the subset you need to Java. My understanding is its not insane C++, so depending on how badly you need OCR it might be worth the time.
So short answer: No.
Long answer: if you're willing to work for it.
I am having quite a lot of luck with tesseract-android-tools
ANother option could be to post the image to a webapp (possibly at a later moment), and have it OCR-processed there without the C++ -> Java port issues and possibly clogging the mobile CPU.
Google Goggles is the perfect application for doing both OCR and translation.
And the good news is that Google Goggles to Become App Platform.
Until then, you can use IQ Engines.
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