This comes straight from Android OCR’s own GitHub page — it’s free. Need help installing?
What it looks like
About this app
Point this at a page, a sign or a screenshot and it reads the text so you can copy, search or share it. Recognition happens on your phone using Tesseract, with language packs you download once.
It is small, has no ads, and asks for almost no permissions.
From the app’s home page
- See the codeHow it’s made — every line is public
- Questions & commentsTalk with the people who make it
- Report a problemTell the makers something is broken
- All versionsOlder downloads and what changed
- LicenseThe rules for using and sharing it
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