FYP2008 Text Recognition on Mobile Devices

Project Members:
Loh Zhi Chang

Idea:
Mobile phones have evolved from passive one-to-one communication device to powerful handheld computing device. Today most new mobile phones are capable of capturing images, recording video, and browsing internet and do much more. Exciting new social applications are emerging on mobile landscape, like, business card readers, sing detectors and translators. These applications help people quickly gather the information in digital format and interpret them without the need of carrying laptops or tablet PCs. The focus of the project is to improve on current open-source OCR framework, tesseract OCR engine, so that it can be use to develop applications like, business card reader, road sign translator, digital tourist information guide, etc.