Logographic OCR on cell phone photos: I hear this idea all the time, but I can't find info on any actual products/projects; DAE if anybody's working on this?
The idea is that you snap a picture of a word or words in a character-based language (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), and then your phone can run an OCR routine on it to give you a list of possibles, and selecting one of those you'd get the definition, pronunciation, etc.
I'm not saying it's a killer app or anything -- the market's not exactly universal -- but the cool factor is way up there, and it would be of invaluable help to people learning these languages.
I'm one of those people, so just curious if there's anyone working on anything like this.
Posted Nov 3, 2010, 2:58 PM UTC
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