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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Text recognition on your mobile
Here are two new solutions for taking a snapshot of a document and convert it to text that can be edited and stored.
ABBYY provides an SDK that runs on the phone for creating your own text-aware applications. I looked for the solution at ABBYY's site but didn't find it, so I guess it was first announced at CTIA. This is very likely only available for a select number of handsets with advanced OSs at this time.
OCR for your mobile phone
ScanR is different in that the conversion is taking place at a central service. A photo is sent in via email and the service converts the image into a searchable PDF document, retaining a cleaned-up version of the original image and sends it back.
Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera
Note: I flinch when people still talk about Optical Character Recognition (OCR). There are no optics involved except in the initial snapshot of the document image. The actual "OCR" solution is of course completely software-based, and doesn't care how the image was created. It's like saying word processing is Finger Character Recognition. Oh well...
ABBYY provides an SDK that runs on the phone for creating your own text-aware applications. I looked for the solution at ABBYY's site but didn't find it, so I guess it was first announced at CTIA. This is very likely only available for a select number of handsets with advanced OSs at this time.
OCR for your mobile phone
ScanR is different in that the conversion is taking place at a central service. A photo is sent in via email and the service converts the image into a searchable PDF document, retaining a cleaned-up version of the original image and sends it back.
Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera
Note: I flinch when people still talk about Optical Character Recognition (OCR). There are no optics involved except in the initial snapshot of the document image. The actual "OCR" solution is of course completely software-based, and doesn't care how the image was created. It's like saying word processing is Finger Character Recognition. Oh well...
