http://ocrapiservice.com provides an online and cloud based OCR (Optical Character Recognition) REST API.
Examples on how to use this api on multiple platforms are stored in this repository. If you are not familiar with git, you can download the examples by clicking on the "Download" tab. You can also clone this repository by running the command :
git clone git@github.com:smart-mobile-software/ocrapiservice.gitPlease follow theses tutorial to learn how to fork and contribute to the project http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/ http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/
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