What is the best way to click a picture of an ID and extract text from it for further processing?
I am creating a mobile app, that reads bar codes + can click pictures of Driving License etc. and extract text from the ID.
While the bar-code scanning part is easy, I'm confused about the OCR part. Any suggestions on how to achieve this?
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May 9, 2014
It would helped if you told us which platform(s) you are targeting with the mobile app and which coding tools you will be using. I'll assume you will code the app with standard tools (Xcode, Eclipse, etc.). I suggest to find an open source OCR library which can be used by the application. There are lot's of OCR libraries you can use to add to your app. You will also need to build some form of parsing after the OCR had returned the text string to eliminate the "garbage" strings which will be recognised from the picture. The IDs usually have a "start" stings ex: ">>>>") which you can use to recognise that part of the text.
May 9, 2014
Hi Sunny,
There are some is freeware software out there which should be easy to integrate into what you are doing. Hope that helps, BTW I found a few with a quick google search. SO it should be easy to find one which works for you.
Good Luck,
Regards,
Stephen
May 9, 2014
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