tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR with Android Studio?

The Tesseract OCR library is an open-source library for optical character recognition (OCR). It can be used with Android Studio to recognize text from images.

The following example code shows how to use Tesseract OCR with Android Studio:

// Initialize a Tesseract OCR instance
TessBaseAPI tessBaseApi = new TessBaseAPI();

// Set the language to English
String language = "eng";
tessBaseApi.init(DATA_PATH, language);

// Set the image to be recognized
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.test_image);
tessBaseApi.setImage(bitmap);

// Recognize the text
String recognizedText = tessBaseApi.getUTF8Text();

// Log the recognized text
Log.d("TESSERACT", recognizedText);

Code explanation

1. TessBaseAPI tessBaseApi = new TessBaseAPI(); - This line initializes a Tesseract OCR instance.
2. String language = "eng"; - This line sets the language of the text to be recognized to English.
3. Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.test_image); - This line sets the image to be recognized.
4. tessBaseApi.setImage(bitmap); - This line sets the image to the Tesseract OCR instance.
5. String recognizedText = tessBaseApi.getUTF8Text(); - This line recognizes the text from the image.
6. Log.d("TESSERACT", recognizedText); - This line logs the recognized text.

Helpful links

• Tesseract OCR on Github
• Tesseract OCR on Android

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