textfairy

Android OCR App

available in the play store

Features

convert images to pdf
recognize text in images
basic document management
delete
edit
merge multiple documents into one
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Project Structure

app contains the android app code
app/libs/hocr2pdf contains c++ code to create pdf files
app/libs/image_processing contains image processing code (binarization and page segmentation)
- can be compiled to a command line executable main.cpp
- app/libs/image_processing/CppTestProject contains an XCode project to debug and test the image processing code on desktop
app/libs/leptonica, app/libs/libjpeg, app/libs/libpng-android, app/libs/hocr2pdf and app/libs/tesseract are external dependencies that where added to the sources directly either because they were modified or they are not available as git repos.

Building with gradle

make sure that you have got the android sdk as well as ndk installed

git clone git@github.com:renard314/textfairy.git
cd textfairy
./gradlew app:assembleDevelopDebug