Optical Character Recognition

The Optical Character Recognition is a mobileapplication. It uses smart mobile phones of android platform. Thispaper combines the functionality of Optical CharacterRecognition and speech synthesizer. The objective is to developuser friendly application which performs image to speechconversion system using android phones. The OCR takes image asthe input, gets text from that image and then converts it intospeech. This system can be useful in various applications likebanking, legal industry, other industries, and home and officeautomation. It mainly designed for people who are unable to readany type of text documents. In this paper, the characterrecognition method is presented by using OCR technology andandroid phone with higher quality camera.