Character Recognition

This app utilizes the Tesseract OCR to recognize text in images

Andy Tai · org.atai.TessUI

Not rated yet 1K+ downloads v0.3.10 11 MB Android 4.0+ PEGI 3 · Everyone

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At a glance

Latest version: v0.3.10 (16)
Updated: May 29, 2025 (1 year ago)
APK size: 11 MB
Requires: Android 4.0+ (API 14)
CPU support: x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit, ARM 32-bit, ARM 64-bit
Category: Photography (app)
Listed since: Mar 12, 2025 (at least)
Permissions: 3 (2 sensitive)
Website: atai.org
Developer contact: [email protected]
Privacy: Developer's privacy policy

About this APK

Character Recognition is an app by Andy Tai in the Photography category, listed since at least March 2025. It includes native code for x86 32-bit, x86 64-bit, ARM 32-bit and ARM 64-bit, so it runs on practically every phone.

It asks for 3 permissions, 2 of them sensitive: camera and modify shared storage.

What's new in v0.3.10

Upgrade the Tesseract library to version 3.4, via the use of the tess-two Android wrapper for the Tesseract library Removal of the Microsoft Bing based language translation as that was experimental feature and no longer supported

Description

From the listing uploaded by “actolov”.

This app utilizes the Tesseract OCR library to perform character recognition on images selected from the gallery or captured from the camera. Recognition results can be edited or copied to the clipboard for export. The app ships with the English training data; recognition with other languages is possible but requires an one-time download of the training data for each additional language; the required data for languages other than English are not shipped with the app due to data size. As the user selects a different language the training data will be downloaded at that time. The download may take some minutes depending on the bandwidth. Once the dafa for a language are installed, OCR in that language can be performed directly in future runs of the app on your device.

Security & authenticity

Security rating: Unknown

Signing certificate

Certificate issued to “fdroid.org” Not the developer's name (“Andy Tai”). Names in certificates can't be verified, so this alone proves nothing.

Store checks and file details

Developer signature not checked yet Jan 29, 2019
Antivirus scan passed Oct 12, 2020
Signed byCN=FDroid, OU=FDroid, O=fdroid.org, L=ORG, ST=ORG, C=UK
Signing certificate (SHA-1)BE:61:62:44:03:DE:09:4D:66:7D:9F:3E:0D:FB:B7:A6:B4:E3:17:47
File MD533b69dac1cbf278af064d972d081ddbc
Uploaded by “actolov” 2 followers · uploading since 2023

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Permissions (3)

Character Recognition requests 3 permissions, 2 of them sensitive.

Camera Sensitive android.permission.CAMERA
Modify shared storage Sensitive android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Full network access android.permission.INTERNET

Required hardware & features

Camera android.hardware.camera
Basic touch input android.hardware.faketouch