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Optical Character Recognition Functionality Introduction in Mobile Application for Car Diary



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Ioannis Patias

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DOI:10.17265/2328-2223/2017.06.006

The purpose of the paper is to develop a mobile Android application—“Car Log” that gives to users the ability to track all the costs for a vehicle and the ability to add fuel cost data by taking a photo of the cash receipt from the respective gas station where the charging was performed. OCR (optical character recognition) is the conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. Once we have the text machine-encoded we can further use it in machine processes, like translation, or extracted, meaning text-to-speech transformed, helping people in simple everyday tasks. Users of the application will be able to enter other completely different costs grouped into categories and other charges. Car Log application quickly and easily can visualize, edit and add different costs for a car. It also supports the ability to add multiple profiles, by entering data for all cars in a single family, for example, or a small business. The test results are positive thus we intend to further develop a cloud ready application.

Optical character recognition, mobile application, car diary.