OCR image to text in android using camera ?

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i want to make an app in android.. using optical character recognition so i can convert camera click image into text and save it into txt file and upload it into database. But i dont know where i have to start because i never used optical character recognition.. So anyone can guide me or provide some code for OCR and how to use OCR in camera.. so after clicking image from camera it will convert into text

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Here i follow this link but not getting anything

Posted 20-May-16 23:30pm

Utkarsh Sharma

Updated 20-May-16 23:31pm

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Richard MacCutchan 21-May-16 5:38am

Use Google to search for articles/samples on the subject of OCR.

Mike (Prof. Chuck) 26-May-16 3:37am

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki

Tesseract is the most widely used OCR software. Yes you have to compile it yourself but it is very very powerful (even Google uses it, as far as I know).

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