Description
PicToText is a simple free app that uses an OCR engine to extract text from an image. You can either take a picture using the camera or pick one from your library.
The app relies on the Tesseract OCR engine to convert your image to text.
The text can then be edited and shared with your friends via email, Twitter or Facebook!
Current version: 1.0
Support: pictotext [at] andreagiavatto [dot] com
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Notes
This app is based on the work of Robert Carlsen and as the original work, i release the source code of this app under the GPL license.
Download source (5Mb)
This is the script i used to compile Tesseract v3.0 for iPhone, which is a slight modification of Carlsen’s script. It generates both armv6 and armv7 versions of the lib in order to avoid warnings on iOS 4.3+ (it compiles only the iPhone libs not the simulator ones, but you can easily modify the script if you need to test the app in the simulator).