Does Windows phone 7 have an OCR API?
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No, not natively. You'd need to find a 3rd party library.
Update: I did some searching, and it appears that everything which could be used needs a native (C++) runtime. Since this doesn't exist on WP7, you can't use those. While it is possible to use pure C# and the image loading libraries in XNA on WP7 to do OCR, it looks like this has not yet been done.
codekaizen
2010-10-23 03:59:33
Thanks. I suppose it's only a matter of time before an open ocr solution is ported to C# for WP7. I guess these are the pitfalls of working with a brand new platform.
BigPete
2010-10-23 14:24:56
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I know this doesn't answer your question directly, but if you're ok with using an external (web-based) API for OCR, you may want to consider http://www.wisetrend.com/wisetrend_ocr_cloud.shtml
It's a REST API for OCR, based on the ABBYY OCR engine (great for low-quality images, e.g. images from mobile phone cameras). See also http://wisetrend.com/ocr_and_data_capture_blog/?p=198
Eugene Osovetsky
2010-10-24 19:15:41