rahulvaish/OpticalCharacterRecognition-Java

Implementation of OCR in Java

This repository contains OCR implementations in Java.

Table of Contents

• OCR-Tesseract
• OCR-AzureCognitiveServices

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• OCR using Tesseract

  This example illustrates OCR implementation using Tesseract Library. [Source Code]

  • Download eng.traineddata from https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata, in a folder named tessdata.
  • Get a sample image (Grayscale converted) with something written on it.
  • Add tess4j dependency in pom.xml
  • Follow the source code which will read the text/numeric written on image.

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• OCR using Azure Cognitive Services

  This example illustrates OCR implementation using Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. [Source Code]

  • Login into Microsoft Azure
  • Create a Computer Vision Resource
  • Fill the necessary fields, post that we get the Endpoint and Keys
  • Make use of them in the source code to enjoy the OCR service from Microsoft.