OCR for your mobile phone

ABBYY provides an SDK that runs on the phone for creating your own text-aware applications.They have launched an OCR for your mobile phone.

OCR, is optical character recognition, a technique used to turn words on paper into words in digital format, for manipulating on computers and such. Well, a company called ABBYY, from Southern California, has come up with an application that lets you take a picture of a set of text with your mobile phone and convert that picture into digital text.

The demo seen at youtube is of someone shooting a business card and then converting that info-in five seconds, no less—into a contacts listing in the phone's address book.

Lets See how long does it take for this application of this functionality is realized. We already have OCR scanners and even pens. Soon, we'll be able to shoot a book, page by page, and read it on our phones or PDAs, or iPods.