Getting text from image on ios (image processing)

Question

I am thinking of making an application that requires extracting TEXT from an image. I haven\'t done any thing similar and I don\'t want to implement the whole stuff on my ow

Answer 1

One of the main open source libraries used to do OCR on iOS is a google-sponsored open source project called tesseract.

Here is some info on compiling tesseract for use in iOS apps:

tesseract

The same guy has a nice sample project on github demonstrating how a simple client might use the compiled library:

Pocket-OCR