text-recognition

I found a web application that recognizes handwritten math equations: http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/equation.html?locale=default I would like to know if someone knows an app or a tutorial or an open source project that implements this mechanism, because getting it from this webapp is really complex. Note: I just need the equation drawn in the canvas to be translated in an input text box that's all. Jack burridge Tesseract OCR has been ported to JavaScript . Google Cloud Vision is a very accurate OCR service, and it's free for up to 1000 requests per month . It's also easy to use via its

I am currently writing code that should be able to view a picture of text and then extract the text from the picture for android based devices. I did some research online and found that Google provides their own API called "Mobile Vision" (a package with many items i.e. text recognition, facial recognition, etc). However, in their demos they only demonstrate live text recognition. I was wondering if anyone could give me an example of text recognition on a still image using the Mobile Vision API. Any help is welcome. Thanks. The Google Play Services Mobile Vision API Documentation describes how

Does anyone know of any free/open-source text recognition libraries in C/C++/Objective-C? Basically something that can scan an image, and read out all of the plain text. rxin The most famous one is Tesseract OCR developed initially by Motorola and later become open source. It is also promoted by Google. There are a few more, perhaps not as famous as Tesseract: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCRopus http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ Here is an interesting article on how to extract numbers from picture. The author collects large number of samples to train his neural networks algorithm and I believe