This tutorial is intended for noobs like me – I spent 4 hours trying to set this up when it should take less than an hour.
Here are the sites I used to write the tutorial:
Using Tesseract Tools for Android to Create a Basic OCR App
http://kurup87.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/android-ocr-tutorial-image-to-text.html
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1 What You Need (brackets indicate which version I am using)
- eclipse (3.7.1) – http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/indigo/sr2
- java jdk (1.6) – http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk6-downloads-1637591.html
- android sdk (r20.0.1) – http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
- android ndk (r8b) – http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
- cygwin (1.7.15-1) – http://cygwin.com/
- apache-ant (1.8.4) – http://ant.apache.org/
2 Installation
2.1 Eclipse
You should be able to install Eclipse without any help
2.2 Java JDK
You should be able to install Java JDK without any help
Why is this tuto empty ?! too bad :'(
I’m not a developer, I always use this free online ocr servie.