Hello is there anyone know, the best number recognition for android,,I already researched about tesseract, but i thought it is not good for my app,,since my application will detect only the id number of employee and search it in my database,,can you recommend what algorithm,engine will fit in my app. By the I'm only beginner in ocr.
You said you do not want to use Tesseract "because it will detect only an id number", regardless, it is still a number, and recognition of a number would be possible by OCR,
You can either implement your own OCR, or use an existing OCR tool/api.
I suggest you go ahead with Tesseract , since it will be better than implementing your own (it is tested and used a lot)
Unless, you are using OCR for a specific purpose i.e. (for handwriting, etc) - you would need to use your own implementation - though i've heard it can be done with Tesseract as well.
Please read the following :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9404319/optical-character-recognition-android-with-opencv
http://kurup87.blogspot.in/2012/03/android-ocr-tutorial-image-to-text.html
I just googled about "wordsnap ocr" -> it seems like a single word ocr android app. and GOCR -> seems to be a linux-friendly ocr tool.
since you asked for something light, simple and SPECIALIZED for number recog, go for a NN OCR, please refer to this -> http://www.nithinrajs.in/ocr-using-artificial-neural-network-opencv-part-1/
Many thanks sir,,i really appreciated your suggestion, i already read the link but i thought the application do in desktop not for android,,By the way sir i found a link,http://vkedco.blogspot.com/2013/03/vladimir-kulyukin-learning-objectives-1.html which is a prebuilt tesseract ,do you think this is good??
Yeah it seems good, sorry for the late reply.
Since your application is intended for android - and tesseract is built in c++, You can use Android NDK for using (the existing c++) tesseract in your android project. (check last link)
Check out the following resources. http://rmtheis.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/using-tesseract-tools-for-android-to-create-a-basic-ocr-app/
http://kurup87.blogspot.in/2012/03/android-ocr-tutorial-image-to-text.html
http://droidcomp.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/building-the-tesseract-ndk-library-for-android/
Hey It's ok,,I already use Tesseract i just followed the http://vkedco.blogspot.com/2013/03/vladimir-kulyukin-learning-objectives-1.html so that i don't need anymore to setup ndk,,, Many Many thanks sir,, CASE CLOSED :)
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