[android-developers] recognize text in images on opening the camera

2011-06-21 Thread Sapna Srivastav
Hi everyone I need some help to recognize text in image when a user opens his/her camera then the application can detect the text in the image and show it in an edit text. Please suggest me which APIs or classes are used for developing this kind of application and also is there any

Re: [android-developers] recognize text in images on opening the camera

2011-06-21 Thread Mark Murphy
Converting images to text is called OCR. There are no APIs in Android for OCR. You are welcome to attempt to find a working OCR solution -- the only one I can think of that works well (ABBYY) is probably more expensive than you can afford. There have been attempts to port open source OCR engines