OCR

[Roger Eller]

Speaking of using the camera for OCR, the Google Translate app is pretty
amazing at real-time OCR+translation.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en

~Roger


On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> After you sent it, I uploaded a sample of what the camera would see.  I was
> disappointed in the results, so I'm worried that that solution is going to
> be a problem.  We would have to grab the image, upload it, see if the OCR
> passes a sanity test, and if it doesn't, take and upload another image,
> etc.  It's an interesting idea, though, if the image isn't so challenging.
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I haven't.  I've used an extension in the past that I believe was driven
> by
> > google ocr (in chrome) and it worked well. The nice thing is the google
> > platform is a rest api, with google computing power behind it.  Not sure
> > how easy it would be to integrate into livecode but hey.. Its rest.  The
> > biggest limitation ( in my eyes) would be connection speed to move image
> > data around.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Have either of you tried these, and if so, have you tested response
> time?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Might look here too: https://cloud.google.com/vision/ and here
> > > > https://developers.google.com/vision/text-overview
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Roger Eller <
> > roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have needed it for an android app before.  I looked into
> shelling a
> > > > > tesserract command.  That could be a nice widget since it is OS.
> > > > >
> > > > > https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki
> > > > >
> > > > > https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
> > > > >
> > > > > ~Roger
> > > > >
> > > > > On Oct 3, 2016 8:34 AM, "Mike Kerner" <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Anyone thinking OCR for LC?
> > > > > >
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