• ABBYY offers its compact OCR Engine for iOS
• A full featured Mobile OCR Engine (SDK) trial is available
• The SDK contains a XCode sample that shows how to work with the SDK

• Barcode Recognition is included!

• Apples iTunes platform is (still) setting standards for mobile Apps
  • User acceptance
  • Number of downloads
  • Generated revenue
• Existing Applications can be extended with OCR
• OCR is a new way to bring information in/on the phone

Note: If you would like to use OCR within you App, but not prefer to implement a full OCR Engine, you should also check out Cloud OCR SDK

• The camera of the iPhone 3G has only a fix focus lens and ins not suited for most of the camera OCR scenarios.
• From the iPhone 3Gs on, Apple used a camera with auto-focus. Combined with the 3 mega-pixel it is capable to be used in capturing text snippets and business cards.
• The new iPhone 4 camera with 5 mega-pixel will result in better images and better OCR results.
• Every other iPhone generation also brought improvements to the camera.

• Version 4.0 <- current
• Version 3.0

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