Android Project with Backend local server of apache2 running php . The OCR is done on Matlab and the image is transferred to the server.
- Xampp
- Matlab 2013+
- Python 2.7
- CodeBlocks
- Tesseract Library https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Downloads (Tesseract OCR setup)
Step 1: Install all these above software. Open XAMPP control panel and start apache server.
Step 2: Add Path variable for Matlab/bin folder and Codeblocks/bin folder to access gcc and matlab command.
Step 3: Copy the server code in C:\xampp\htdocs\server.
Step 4: Connect your test smartphone on the same network as the PC and get your PC's ipaddress by using command ipconfig
Step 5: Open Up the Android Code in Android Studio (Install all the sdk build tools for compiling)
Step 6: Edit the MainActivity.java file and rename the serverUrl variable to point your PC's laptop.
Step 7: You can check whether server is working by typing the ipaddress of PC from step 4 in smartphone which opens the XAMPP default page.
Step 8: Upload the sample image from the sample image folder in server by using the browse button.
You can raise issue in the code if you find any bugs. :)