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Rapid text recognition from Android or iOS video camera


Are any of the current text capture APIs (e.g. Google's Text API) fast enough to capture text from a phone's video feed, and draw a box that stays on the text even as the camera moves?

I don't need fast enough to do full OCR per-frame (though that would be amazing!). I'm just looking for fast enough to recognize blocks of text and keep the bounding box displayed in sync with the live image.


Solution

  • There are two major options for good results. They are both C++ but there are wrappers. I've personally played with OpenCV for face recognition and the results were promising. Below links with small tutorials and demos.