Develop an android app to provide language translation but taking a photo of the text.

• Requires image processing to recognise and extract text.
• Can implement machine learning to better recognise characters.
• Translation engine can be google translate.
• Start with extraction of english alphabets from the image to text.
• android app

STAGE 1: Develop a program to recognise and extract english characters from an image.

• Develop a complete app to convert characters in an image to text in a text file(.txt?).
• Implement on android using Java libraries.

STAGE 2: Implement machine learning to improve recognition of the character set. STAGE 3: Expand character set to include symbols of all indian languages. STAGE 4: Implement google translate as the translation engine.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Write permission has not been requested in runtime therefore to save text to file the permission must be granted in app permissions by the user.