DocumentsOCR

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Requirements

• XCode 8 +
• iOS 8.0 +

Example

To run the example project, clone the repo, and run pod install from the Example directory first.

Used frameworks

DocumentOCR framework uses

• TesseractOCR text recognition of machine readable codes
• PodAsset easy way to use pod assets
• GPUImage helps to crop image from camera

Installation

DocumentsOCR is available through CocoaPods. To install
it, simply add the following lines to your Podfile:

pod 'TesseractOCRiOS', :git => 'https://github.com/appintheair/Tesseract-OCR-iOS'
pod "DocumentsOCR"

Usage

Import DocumentsOCR framework

    import DocumentsOCR

Implement DocumentScannerDelegate protocol

Create your custom class, which implemets DocumentScannerDelegate protocol

class ExampleViewController: UIViewController, DocumentScannerDelegate {
    
    // required fucntions:
    func documentScanner(_ scanner: DocumentScanner, didFinishScanningWithInfo info: DocumentInfo) {
        // do something with DocumentInfo instance
    }	

    func documentScanner(_ scanner: DocumentScanner, didFailWithError error: NSError) {
        // handle error
    }   
    
    //optional functions:
    func documentScanner(_ scanner: DocumentScanner, willBeginScanningImages images: [UIImage]) {
        // do something with images
    }
    	
    func documentScanner(_ scanner: DocumentScanner, recognitionProgress progress: Double) {
        // present current progress of recognition
    }
    	
    // some other code here ...
}

Create DocumentScanner instance

Initialize DocumentScanner instance with references to UIViewController and DocumentScannerDelegate

	var scanner = DocumentScanner(containerVC: self, withDelegate: self)

Optionally you can set how many photos to take and time interval between them:

    scanner.photosCount = 10
    scanner.takePhotoInterval = 1.0

Present camera controller

Scanner instance can present view controller with camera and border (actually, container view controller will do this inside document scanner instance).

	func someMethod() {
		scanner.presentCameraViewController()
	}

Events after “take shoot” button pressed

After take shoot button pressed, device take photosCount photos with takePhotoInterval time interval then these delegate methods call:

    func documentScanner(_ scanner: DocumentScanner, willBeginScanningImages images: [UIImage])

When one of the images recognized

    func documentScanner(_ scanner: DocumentScanner, recognitionProgress: Double) 

Then if images were recognized successfull:

    func documentScanner(_ scanner: DocumentScanner, didFinishScanningWithInfo info: DocumentInfo)

If some error happened

    func documentScanner(_ scanner: DocumentScanner, didFailWithError error: NSError)

Author

Michael Babaev, [email protected]

License

DocumentsOCR is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

TODO

• [x] documentation
• [x] fix minor UI defects in example
• [x] code refactoring
• [x] pod string for all versions (without using ~> version")
• [x] improve mr code recognition
• [x] check visa document recognitions
• [x] take many pictures when “take shoot” button pressed, then make best machine readable code
• [x] enable bitcode for tesseract framework
• [ ] tests for camera shoots