Installation without problem here. I am testing on a HTC Magic (Google
Ion) and from what I have seen in the YouTube clip, I assume the
camera should automatically be focused for the shot? If that's the
case... doesn't happen on my device.


On Sep 7, 1:29 am, Vlad Panait <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> thank you.
>
> Just uploaded the apk on the google-code 
> website:http://code.google.com/p/mezzofanti/
> Also:
> - all code sources are available online athttp://code.google.com/p/mezzofanti/
> - you can find some how-to tutorials about tesseract integration 
> here:http://www.itwizard.ro/interfacing-cc-libraries-via-jni-example-tesse...
> - and putting it all together in Mezzofanti 
> here:http://www.itwizard.ro/mezzofanti-augmented-reality-through-text-reco...
> (by the way, there is a pdf with software modules description in
> there)
>
> Have fun, and if you have any questions do not hesitate ;)
> Best regards
> IT Wizard
>
> On Sep 3, 2:40 pm, "Eric Wong (hdmp4.com)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.royoucanalso 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
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