AN ANDROID APPLICATION FOR BENGALI OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION FROM IMAGE

Abstract

This project is on “An Android Application for Bengali Optical Character Recognition from Image”. An Optical Character Recognition system for Bengali language is proposed here. This application can detect and recognize Bengali text that is captured by a mobile device or selected from gallery and displays recognized text onto the phone screen. You can edit the recognized text within this software and also can copy text for further use. For developing this application, we have used the Tesseract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine which was developed by Google is an open source OCR application. The output of the OCR is allowed to be edited or copied recognized text for further processing like translate text via translator, save text file via different MSOffice Software. This project is useful for the foreign tourists to navigate while they are traveling around this country. This application will allow users to perform many actions in few minutes, such as copy text and modify it, instead of wasting time on retyping it. UI of this application is user friendly so that any user can use this application. This application is very much time consuming and accurate than other existing Bengali OCR.