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Hello, In general, you would need an OCR engine. The OCR engine could be built into the mobile app or be cloud based. You could also have your own OCR engine and running it on your own servers (to meet security/privacy requirements). For OpenEdge Mobile, you could add a PhoneGap plugin or add JavaScript code to call a REST/web service to extract the text from the image file. You would use the camera service to take the picture first. Making it to work real time is not as easy. For example, Google recently bought Word Lens that does real time OCR and translation. www.techrepublic.com/.../google-picks-up-incredible-visual-translation-app-word-lens-and-makes-it-free I did some internet searches (OCR image, OCR iOS/Android, OCR PhoneGap plugin, OCR REST API). I found some references to the Tesseract OCR engine. Here are some links that might be useful: github.com/.../PhonegapOCRPlugin stackoverflow.com/.../free-phonegap-ocr-plugins-for-android stackoverflow.com/.../android-phonegap-plugin-for-ocr stackoverflow.com/.../ocr-web-service www.aspose.com/.../ocr-api.aspx www.aspose.com/.../Extract%20OCR%20or%20HOCR%20Text%20from%20Images http://ocrapiservice.com stamplin.com/.../extracttextpdf http://www.onlineocr.net www.onlineocr.net/.../ocrwebservice www.smartocr.com/sdk.htm http://www.newocr.com I have not tried any of these plugins/web services myself. I hope this helps.
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