Any open source /free OCR(Pattern recognition) software? (for mobile platforms?)

Question

Hi,

I want to extract the text information (Chinese) from the images that picked by users with their mobiles. So I am here wondering is there any open source/free OCR (Pattern recognition) software for mobile platform. Currently I am doing with iPhone (And android, blackberry platform?)

I've searched stackoverflow but seems there only are some questions about C#/.Net

Thank you in advance~

Answer 1

GrayWizardx is right there are few servers that provide this kind of services like kooaba

And may be it will be a bad idea to re-invent the whole wheel

Answer 2

If you're into writing your own solution, this paper seems to be applicable.

Answer 3

There's a solution in the form of an online API that you can call from the mobile device, based on the ABBYY recognition engine, that does OCR of Chinese text. The publicly-available API - http://www.webservius.com/corp/docs/wisetrend.pdf - only does English text, but if you send an email to the support address listed at the very bottom of that document, a special arrangement can be made to enable Chinese.