OCR for Android

Learn how to create an Android OCR application with Tesseract Tools for Android. The projects works with Tesseract pre-release v3.04 and Leptonica v1.71. The tess-two subdirectory contains tools for compiling the Tesseract and Leptonica libraries for use on the Android platform. It contains an Android library project that provides a Java API for accessing natively-compiled Tesseract and Leptonica APIs.

This project is set up to build on Android SDK Tools r22.3+ and Android NDK r10+. The build works on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows 7/8

How to build Android OCR.

To build tess-two, run the following commands in the terminal:

git clone git://github.com/rmtheis/tess-two tess
cd tess
cd tess-two
ndk-build
android update project --path .
ant release
To build eyes-two, additionally run the following:

cd ..
cd eyes-two
ndk-build
android update project --path .
ant release

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