App to read hospital labels, OCR them and return text

In Progress Posted Nov 17, 2013 Paid on delivery
In Progress Paid on delivery

Hospitals print pages of standard stickers for use on various documents. For any given hospital these stickers are formatted in a constant manner and display a fixed set of useful fields of data.

As a proof-of-concept piece I need an app which will allow the user of an iPhone or iPad to photograph an image of a hospital sticker. The image may be processed in device or on a remote Linux server. An open source OCR solution should be employed (eg tesseract-ocr) and the key fields should be returned as text to the phone. A simple results screen with the text results is all I need at this point.

I will provide an example image. The solution should identify, at a minimum, surname, title, first forename, date of birth, and address (as a single line of text). The solution should be able to get this data from any reasonable image of a sticker from the same hospital. The solution should provide scope for generalisation to other hospitals. The user could select a hospital name from a drop down list if having a template makes the process of field recognition and ocr easier.

C++ Programming iPad iPhone

Project ID: #5136954

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14 proposals Remote project Active Nov 24, 2013

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beepig

Dear Hiring Manager, I'm a mobile applications development team manager and a developer myself too, and I'm very interested in your job post involving these skills. Our team has recently worked in iOS/Android apps de More

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ShenHua

Dear Sir. Thanks for your posting. I'm very interested in your project. Because, I am very familiar with tesseract. I already developed the OCR on iOS using tesseract. I can send the demo video if you want. I t More

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smab1176

I have experience in IOS, Android, Blackberry and Symbian Apps. I have published work in the field of OCR. I propose 1500$ for the complete application for ios along with a website (fully functional) for template manag More

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fkhandev

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