Mobile Camera Based Text Detection and Translation
Inspired by the well know iPhone app "Word Lens" we developed an Android platform based text translation application that is able to recognize the text captured by a mobile phone camera, translate the text, and display the translation result back onto the screen of the mobile phone. Our text extraction and recognition algorithm has a correct recognition rate that is greater than 85% on character level. In this report, we demonstrate the system flow, the text detection algorithm and detailed experiment result.