Great work. I previously had a similar idea for an application for ADC2 using OCR engine but no one figured out how to incorporate the Tesseract engine.
Btw, is the apk available for download somewhere? Cheers Eric On Sep 2, 8:23 pm, ITWizard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > we are happy to share with you the release of Mezzofanti, an > application that allows reality augmentation (as seen in camera mode) > with information about any text in view. The augmentation is done > through an internal text-recognition engine. > > The application at a glance: > 1. Select a text of interest (ex: menu at a restaurant, tourist > information sign, etc), and take a photo. The internal-OCR engine will > start text-recognition. > 2. Use Mezzofanti to translate the text (or parts of it) to any one of > over forty languages, or to google it on the web, find more > information in the dictionary or on Wikipedia. > > Technologies: > - the internal-OCR engine is a modified version of Tesseract 2.03, > currently developed by Google under Apache License v2.0. - The engine > is particularly optimized for 5 languages (English, German, Spanish, > Italian, and French), but it works fairly well with any other language > that uses the Latin alphabet. > - the interface between the OCR engine (C++) and Java is done in JNI > - the main core is programmed in Java > - the translation engine is based on Google-translate > > License information: > - all Mezzofanti code is available for free under the Apache License > v2.0 and it is posted at google code. > > On our websitehttp://www.itwizard.royou can also find: > - a tutorial about Mezzofanti's features and internal architecture > - all the Mezzofanti code, and a tutorial on how to install & run it > from your own SDK > - how to interface the Tesseract OCR with your own code, JNI/NDK how- > to > - many other tutorials and examples for Android > > We encourage dialog, so please leave us some feedback. We're > particularly interested in collaboration opportunities on new and > exciting projects for mobile platforms. > > Looking forward for your thoughts! ;) > > Best regards > IT Wizard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
