Tesseract-ocr open source for iPhone

[kevpatts]

Hey all,

I'm interested in getting OCR working on the iPhone (open source).
There are many commercial contracts being offered out there for this
work, but none are open source. Would it be feasable to implement
Tesseract in objective C for the iPhone?

I'm not a hugely experienced programmer by any means, but I'm looking
to write a specific application for the iPhone which would eventually
require OCR.

Would this be of any interest to this group?

Regards,
Kevin Pattison

[Chuck Pareto]

What about C#? Has anyone thought about a complete re write in C#?
-CP

[kevpatts]

Is C# compatible with the iPhone?

On Jan 27, 4:24 pm, Chuck Pareto <chuckda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about C#? Has anyone thought about a complete re write in C#?
> -CP
>

[Chuck Pareto]

no.

[Jimmy O'Regan]

2009/1/27 Chuck Pareto <chuck...@gmail.com>:

>
> no.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:15 AM, kevpatts <kevp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is C# compatible with the iPhone?
>>

Mono, which includes a C# compiler, runs on the iPhone.

As to the original question, apparently the iPhone SDK comes with g++,
so you shouldn't have any trouble compiling Tesseract for it--writing
an Objective C frontend to link to it is another matter entirely :)
(But it shouldn't be any more difficult for the iPhone than for a
regular Mac).

[kevpatts]

I have been posting elsewhere and apparently it's already been done:
"I have a friend who tried Tesseract. It doesn't work well on iPhone.
The camera lens focuses too far."

I'm trying to get the full info now.

On Jan 27, 6:19 pm, "Jimmy O'Regan" <jore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/27 Chuck Pareto <chuckda...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
> > no.

[Chuck Pareto]

I have asked this question before but forgot the response I received.
Does anyone know how well Tesseract will hold up against an enterprise
solution like Abby Fine Reader?
I just need English and maybe German.
What would be the difference between using Tesseract and Abby Fine Reader???
Would I be ableto train Teseract fairly quickly to be as strong if not
stronger than Abby Fine Reader.
What would be the pros and cons between the two?
-CP

[kevpatts]

Chuck is well and truely hijacking my thread here, but it's okay. I
think I'm going to find my answers elsewhere.

Thanks guys.

On Jan 27, 6:31 pm, Chuck Pareto <chuckda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have asked this question before but forgot the response I received.
> Does anyone know how well Tesseract will hold up against an enterprise
> solution like Abby Fine Reader?
> I just need English and maybe German.
> What would be the difference between using Tesseract and Abby Fine Reader???
> Would I be ableto train Teseract fairly quickly to be as strong if not
> stronger than Abby Fine Reader.
> What would be the pros and cons between the two?
> -CP
>

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jimmy O'Regan <jore...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2009/1/27 Chuck Pareto <chuckda...@gmail.com>:
>

> >> no.

[Chuck Pareto]

sorry about that. I'll start a new one.
-CP

[Rob H.]

I'm pretty sure that you can mix objective c and c++ on the iphone (if
I remember correctly from going through the tutorials). So in theory,
you could compile tesseract using g++ on the mac and then call it from
the objective c code (ie create a wrapper).

-Rob