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rmtheis / android-ocr

Experimental optical character recognition app
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App Based on this Library? #78

Closed rayliverified closed 6 years ago

rayliverified commented 6 years ago

I found an app that does OCR very similar to this library published on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duyp.vision.textscanner

They don't have any licensing info so I don't know for sure if they are using your code. Given how it's pretty much impossible to build an app without using ANY open source libraries, I find it a bit suspicious.

Just wanted to give you a heads up that someone may be using your code without following open source licensing requirements.

rmtheis commented 6 years ago

Hmm, thanks for the heads up. Interesting app. That app is using the Google Play Services Mobile Vision API locally, and Tesseract on a remote server. But you're right, that app really should mention what libraries it uses.

rayliverified commented 6 years ago

Thanks for taking a look. I'm not too familiar with OCR technology but it seems in the last 3 years, the accuracy has become so good.