Open Source OCR in JavaScript

Re:Open Source OCR in JavaScript by mrfusion on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:26AM (#8107925)

Would this be an easy way to get OCR into an iPhone app with phone gap?

Could it operate on a live video feed?

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Re:Open Source OCR in JavaScript by gry on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:45AM (#8108459)

It might be easy, but until iOS 8 is released, non-Safari JS still takes a performance hit. [1] You may want to take a look at the Tesseract library and Objective-C wrapper. [2]

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/ios-8-webkit-changes-finally-a... [2] https://github.com/ldiqual/tesseract-ios

edit: Looking closer at this lib, impressive. Might give it a go.

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Re:Open Source OCR in JavaScript by jfoster on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:51AM (#8108081)

Doing anything to a live video feed in JS on a phone probably won't be very feasible except for extremely low resolution video.

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