Bangla Optical Character Recognition for Mobile Platforms: A Comprehensive Cross-Platform Approach
Sabrina Sharmin,
Tasauf Mim,
Mohammad Rahman
Abstract:The development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems for Bangla script has been an area of active research since the 1980s. This study presents a comprehensive analysis and development of a cross-platform mobile application for Bangla OCR, leveraging the Tesseract OCR engine. The primary objective is to enhance the recognition accuracy of Bangla characters, achieving rates between 90% and 99%. The application is designed to facilitate the automatic extraction of text from images selected from the dev… Show more
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