ANDROID-BASED APPLICATION FOR BOOK COVER IDENTIFICATION UTILIZING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND STRING SIMILARITY ALGORITHM

Abstract

Choosing the next book to read that suits readers' needs can be overwhelming and time- consuming as the options of book selection keep rising. The wrong decision of choosing a

book can lead to time-wasting and loss of the opportunity to find good values that other books may have. This research proposes an android application that incorporates Optical Character Recognition and a similar string algorithm so that users can utilize mobile phones to search and obtain preliminary understandings of a book when choosing the next book to read. The proposed application can be improved by utilizing Artificial Intelligence, adding a real-time OCR feature, incorporating note-taking applications, and adding a personal

recommendation system.