How to Read information from an image of a card(credit,debit...)in android?

The requirement is to get information on the different types of cards such as Credit ,Debit, License, SSN, medical insurances etc.

We need to get a photo from the mobile phone then extract details of main fields (name and contact details of user, issuer’s 开发者_开发技巧main details if has mentioned and Card NO) and store within our application .

As i find Abby mobile ocr engine is a better solution.

But i need a open source sdk or api to resolve this problem. And also guide to do the installation on the windows xp and to do a very little example.

I searched on the internet couple of days, but could not fine a good solution.

Thanks a lot.

You may have seen this already but here is some good information about OCR using OpenCV which is opensource.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1284214/simple-ocr-programming-tutorials-articles

"I have a problem core to our business, please solve the issue for me." It's not a simple problem by any means, you're going to have to expend significant efforts improving your algorithm to read all sorts of different fields.

Best bet? Make the application take a photo and upload it to your service, you have much more flexibility and processing power there. Any existing partial solutions will likely be unsuitable for Android usage.