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Scanner API for iOS


I'm looking for a scanner API library to be embedded in a new app I'm developing in order to give it the feature of scanning documents (in PDF or other formats) using the built-in camera of the iPhone/iPad. Is anybody aware of such a library (...available for free or cheap...of course).


Solution

  • So you are looking for an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) iOS SDK.

    There is 2 basic type of OCR SDKs: offline and cloud based.

    Here is a few options:

    Also there is some more, but I don't have any experience with these:

    First you should let the user take a good photo of the desired document, crop and scale it for the most accurate picture, and after that submit it to the OCR engine.