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.
>
>
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