I also thought of something else: use the camera part of Mezzofanti but send the OCR result to something else instead of the Mezzofanti result activity. Or to put it another way, my activity can launch a Mezzofanti camera and get text as a result - isn't that the way Barcode Scanner works?
Neil http://l6n.org/android/ On Sep 21, 4:09 pm, Mike Kedl <[email protected]> wrote: > I think they meant a way to do it on the phone using your existing > application. > Send you an intent with a picture location on the phone and get back the > text. > All done on the phone, no internet. > Using your existing application without putting the libraries in their code > (since it is already in yours). > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:03 AM, ITWizard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Thymythos > > > first, thank you for your suggestion. > > > There are at least two companies/teams that do OCR as a service over > > Android (just google it). > > With Mezzofanti, we took another approach and included the OCR in the > > code, thus you are not constrained to have internet access, > > you can do the processing on your phone stand-alone. > > Also if you check our webpage and source code, you will find all what > > is needed to get OCR running in your own code > > all is Apache license, so feel free to reuse. We think this is better > > than remote OCR. :) > > > Best regards, > > IT Wizard > >http://www.itwizard.ro > > > On Sep 18, 5:40 pm, "[email protected]" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Would be nice, if you could provide the OCR as service to other > > > applications. > > > > Application has a picture, sends it to the OCR service and get's back > > > the text. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
