Text Recognition and Translation Application for Smartphone

Abstract: The language barrier among tourists was one of the major difficulties when travelling. The tourists can rely on mobile phone for travelling purposes. Mobile dictionary is used for word search for a better travelling guide. Android platform has gained popularity in recent years in terms of market share and number of available applications. Android makes it easier for consumers to get and use new content and applications on their Smart phones. This project aims to develop an Android-platform based text translation application that is able to recognize the text present on sign board images taken with a mobile phone camera, translate the text from Marathi to English, and display the translation result back onto the screen of the mobile phone.

Keywords: Pre-process, OCR, Smartphone, Text Extraction