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Is there any "Tesseract OCR API" available for "IOS SDK 7.0"?

want to make an application in IOS SDK 7.0 with Xcode 5 that required "Tesseract OCR API". So, Is there any "Tesseract OCR API" available for "IOS SDK 7.0" ? if any, please post the download link.

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Praful Avatar asked Nov 07 '13 10:11

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There is an SDK that is iOS 7 compatible There are clear instruction on how to implement it in your application on there as well

Tesseract OCR iOS

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Adam Richardson Avatar answered Nov 15 '22 20:11

Adam Richardson