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Image/Text Recognition

Hey guys,

I saw that this company Mitek made an app that could read receipts through the iPhone's camera and record the information from them. (http://www.miteksystems.com/OOMPH_MobileReceipt.asp). My assumption would be that they run the images through some kind of image/text recognition software. Any ideas what what they might be using? If theres an API that can interpret text from pictures that would be great to.

cheers,
Mike

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They are probably using some type of OCR software. It is hard to tell exactly which.

You can look at ocropus, for example

carlosdc  2010-07-29 18:14:12
I've been trying to get ocropus to work since I posted this, but to no avail. The documentation is literally terrible. Any idea where I can find some nice tutorials?
Mike  2010-07-29 20:16:44
It took me a while on Ubuntu. I followed this article: http://xplus3.net/2009/03/31/ocr-with-ocropus-and-tesseract/. This was more than 6 months ago so the information can be bit outdated.
carlosdc  2010-07-30 03:38:53
If I recall correctly (this is quite a common question for iPhone, I guess), tesseract compiles and works even on the iPhone. I have to admit that I failed compiling ocropus even on my desktop, but that's not bad as it basically just uses tesseract and adds some google-relevant-page-layout stuff. So: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/works great, compiles easily, and even helps breaking captchas ;)
zerm  2010-08-22 11:59:47

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