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I need a free OCR application for the handheld smart phone, but have no idea how to do image processing.<br />
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I am a strong object oriented developer and could really have some fun creating objects out of each letter and building words and sentences. But I do not know how to get started.<br />
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How do I figure out that a letter is a Q, for example? I assumed I'd need a database of letters then create a scoring mechanism to assess whether that Q is an M, O, P, etc. I assume then I'd look for the letter with the highest score.<br />
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My problem is generating the score? Do I do a pixel by pixel comparison?<br />
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Let me know if you have any ideas.....<br />
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newbieweb
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I need a free OCR application for the handheld smart phone, but have no idea how to do image processing.

I am a strong object oriented developer and could really have some fun creating objects out of each letter and building words and sentences. But I do not know how to get started.

How do I figure out that a letter is a Q, for example? I assumed I'd need a database of letters then create a scoring mechanism to assess whether that Q is an M, O, P, etc. I assume then I'd look for the letter with the highest score.

My problem is generating the score? Do I do a pixel by pixel comparison?

Let me know if you have any ideas.....

newbieweb

How do I write my own OCR application?

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records, including passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printouts of static-data, or any suitable documentation. It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that it can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.