# rmtheis/android-ocr

Experimental optical character recognition app

Repository: https://github.com/rmtheis/android-ocr
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/android-ocr
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, ocr, tesseract, optical-character-recognition
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-05-05T15:25:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5429, "days_push": 3042, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2226, forks 880 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:28.780066+00:00)

## What it is
An experimental Android app that performs optical character recognition on images captured with the device camera, running the Tesseract OCR engine via the tess-two fork. It also supports translating recognized text using Google Translate or Microsoft Translator APIs.

## Use cases
- extract text from photos on android
- scan documents with phone camera
- ocr app for android
- recognize text in images using tesseract
- translate text captured from camera

## When to choose
- you want a reference implementation of Tesseract OCR on Android
- you need camera-based text recognition in an Android app you plan to adapt
- you only need English OCR out of the box

## When to avoid
- you need OCR for languages other than English without modifying code, since training data downloads are broken
- you need a maintained, production-ready OCR solution
- you need a library rather than a standalone app

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ocr, image-processing, computer-vision
- domain: computer-vision, image-processing, android-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: tesseract, camera, text-recognition, translation, android

## Member repositories
- rmtheis/android-ocr (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:28.780066+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:44:54.228513+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rmtheis/android-ocr (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:28.780066+00:00, sha 0dcd5d0f28de)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.