Research Article
OCRdroid: A Framework to Digitize Text Using Mobile Phones
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-12607-9_18, author={Mi Zhang and Anand Joshi and Ritesh Kadmawala and Karthik Dantu and Sameera Poduri and Gaurav Sukhatme}, title={OCRdroid: A Framework to Digitize Text Using Mobile Phones}, proceedings={Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. First International ICST Conference, MobiCASE 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, October 26-29, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBICASE}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-12607-9_18} }- Mi Zhang
Anand Joshi
Ritesh Kadmawala
Karthik Dantu
Sameera Poduri
Gaurav Sukhatme
Year: 2012
OCRdroid: A Framework to Digitize Text Using Mobile Phones
MOBICASE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12607-9_18
Abstract
As demand grows for mobile phone applications, research in optical character recognition, a technology well developed for scanned documents, is shifting focus to the recognition of text embedded in digital photographs. In this paper, we present OCRdroid, a generic framework for developing OCR-based applications on mobile phones. OCRdroid combines a light-weight image preprocessing suite installed inside the mobile phone and an OCR engine connected to a backend server. We demonstrate the power and functionality of this framework by implementing two applications called PocketPal and PocketReader based on OCRdroid on HTC Android G1 mobile phone. Initial evaluations of these pilot experiments demonstrate the potential of using OCRdroid framework for real-world OCR-based mobile applications.
