Character Recognition is an Android app that allows the user to take a photo (or use existing image files on the device) and then apply the Tesseract OCR engine to extract the text in the photo. It is currently supporting English text, but other language support will be added in the future.
| Tags | Android OCR |
|---|---|
| Licenses | AGPLv3+ |
| Operating Systems | or later Android 2.3.7 |
| Implementation | C++ Java |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release was updated to the latest release of Tesseract OCR, 3.0.2. There were minor bugfixes, and no UI changes.


Release Notes: This release fixes the support to allow recognized text to be copied.


Release Notes: The Tesseract OCR library was upgraded to version 3.01, with better accuracy and speed. Image rotation support was added, to allow images to be taken at different orientations and rotated into the proper up orientation. An about dialog box with version and license info was added.