ethanliew / android-ocr

Experimental app for optical character recognition on Android.

#android-ocr

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An experimental app for Android that performs optical character recognition (OCR) on images captured using the device camera.

Runs the Tesseract 3.02 OCR engine using a fork of Tesseract Tools for Android.

Most of the code making up the core structure of this project has been adapted from the ZXing Barcode Scanner. Along with Tesseract-OCR and Tesseract Tools for Android (tesseract-android-tools), several open source projects have been used in this project, including leptonica, google-api-translate-java, microsoft-translator-java-api, and jtar.

Requires

• Installation of tess-two as a library project, to act as the OCR engine.
• A Windows Azure Marketplace Client ID and Client Secret (for translation) - Documentation
• A Google Translate API key (for translation) - Documentation

Installing the APK

The APK is available for download to an Android device from Android Market here.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

/*
 * Copyright 2011 Robert Theis
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

One of the jar files in the android/libs directory (google-api-translate-java-0.98-mod2.jar) is licensed under the GNU Lesser GPL.