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Is there any good OCR API for iPhone and/or Android phones? [closed]

Would like to do the following: take picture and convert the text in image into encoded text. I was just wondering if there are any companies providing OCR API for iPhone and/or Android phones?

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Mark K Avatar asked Jan 19 '11 21:01

Mark K


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You will find some more information over here - ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for Iphone

There is a port of the Google Tesseract OCR 2.4 to Android apparently. See Using tesseract on android

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Andrew Cash Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 23:10

Andrew Cash