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Hey guys, I'm searching for a good app that can do the text recognotion stuff the iPhone can. I have a iPhone for work and was quite impressed that it recognizes text and links that good. Is there anything like it on Android? Bonus points if its Open Source.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No there is nothing FOSS. Everything there is is proprietary. Even though Tesseract OCR is FOSS.

You can use Google Camera and Google Lens on GrapheneOS I think. Google Lens may need play services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That seems to be the only viable option. Someday I need to build something like this myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

There are things. Keep an Eye on the GrapheneOS Camera (available through their appstore). For purely Text OCR there are also some PDF scanner apps.