Optical Character Recognition Android with OpenCV

Question

I\'m currently working on a project which involves optical character recognition in Android and really need some pointers from somebody who has some experience in the area.

Answer 1

There's a tutorial here that's based on a fork of Tesseract Tools for Android. To get good results, you'll probably need to preprocess your images using some kind of thresholding.

Answer 2

You can take a look at JavaCV which a java interface to OpenCV

You can check something like Tesseract Android Tools (very decent): http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-android-tools/

Here is a heads up for a problem we all run into at the beginning when using it: Bytes Per Pixel value for byte representation of image in Android (if you are using the camera ofc)