tesseract-ocrHow do I use tesseract OCR in an Android application?

Tesseract OCR can be used in an Android application by using the Tesseract Android Tools library. This library provides Java and C++ APIs for interacting with the Tesseract OCR engine.

To use Tesseract OCR in an Android application, you will need to add the following dependency to your build.gradle file:

implementation 'com.rmtheis:tess-two:9.0.0'

After adding the dependency, you can call the Tesseract engine to recognize text from images. Here is an example of how to do this:

// Create a Tesseract instance
TessBaseAPI tessBaseApi = new TessBaseAPI();

// Initialize the Tesseract instance with the path to the language data files
tessBaseApi.init(DATA_PATH, lang);

// Set the image to recognize text from
tessBaseApi.setImage(bitmap);

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

// Close the Tesseract instance
tessBaseApi.end();

The code above will initialize the Tesseract engine, set the image to recognize text from, get the recognized text, and close the Tesseract instance.

For more information on using Tesseract OCR in Android applications, please refer to the following links:

• Tesseract OCR Android Tools
• Tesseract OCR Wiki
• Tesseract OCR Android Quickstart

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