Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

This paper presets a review on the optical character recognition techniques. The optical character recognition is a mobile application. It uses smart mobiles phones of android platform. The objective is to develop user friendly application performs images to editable text. The OCR takes images as the input, and gives the plain text (editable text) as the output. Our proposed algorithm was based on Tesseract library. This system can be useful in various applications like banking, legal industry, other industries, print media and home and office automation. In this paper, OCR technology and android phone with higher quality camera is being used to recognize the characters.