OCR for iPhone source
The source code for the Tesseract OCR for iPhone project has been published. It’s really simple – more of a skeleton, proof-of-concept project than anything else. Still, though, it’s neat to have nearly point-and-shoot text conversion in your pocket.
The project page is: Pocket OCR
The source code is available at github: http://github.com/rcarlsen/Pocket-OCR
There is certainly a lot of improvement to be made. Automatic color correction. Page layout recognition. Perspective correction…the list could go on. The code is there, so…fork away!
(the thumbnail is a bit tongue-in-cheek…but honest. good conversion requires a good source image: well-lit, macro, focused and tightly cropped seems best)
Tags: camera, git, github, iphone, ocr, open source, photo, programming, project, xcode
January 17th, 2010 at 16:46
This is slick. I have seen some really cool apps where you can take a picture of a business cards, and autofill contact info. The uses are endless when OCR is integrated with the image capabilities of the phones.
February 18th, 2010 at 22:45
i had to use git://github.com/rcarlsen/Pocket-OCR to clone.