Comment on Open Source OCR in JavaScriptComments−mrfusion12yWould this be an easy way to get OCR into an iPhone app with phone gap?Could it operate on a live video feed?−gry12yIt might be easy, but until iOS 8 is released, non-Safari JS still takes a performance hit. [1] You may want to take a look at the Tesseract library and Objective-C wrapper. [2][1] http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/ios-8-webkit-changes-finally-a... [2] https://github.com/ldiqual/tesseract-iosedit: Looking closer at this lib, impressive. Might give it a go.−jfoster12yDoing anything to a live video feed in JS on a phone probably won't be very feasible except for extremely low resolution video.
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Would this be an easy way to get OCR into an iPhone app with phone gap?
Could it operate on a live video feed?
It might be easy, but until iOS 8 is released, non-Safari JS still takes a performance hit. [1] You may want to take a look at the Tesseract library and Objective-C wrapper. [2]
[1] http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/ios-8-webkit-changes-finally-a... [2] https://github.com/ldiqual/tesseract-ios
edit: Looking closer at this lib, impressive. Might give it a go.
Doing anything to a live video feed in JS on a phone probably won't be very feasible except for extremely low resolution video.