OcrApiService.com Brings an OCR API to Android and iPhone Developers

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 23, 2011

http://OcrApiService.com released an optical recognition engine targeted to smartphone apps developers including but not limited to iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone.

The online test drive feature let you try their service without any set up required. Working examples are provided on the website documentation. The Ocr api webservice is provided completely through a web api. No specific SDK needs to be installed. This feature make it easy to create a portable application based for example on technologies like PhoneGap, JQuery Mobile and Html5. http://ocrapiservice.com/easy-to-use/

Developing an image to text killer application has never been so easy.

OcrApiService.com provides :

A language agnostic api
Java, .Net, C#, ASP, Php, etc. As a web api it supports virtually any programming language.

An operating system independent api
iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone are supported as well as web based applications.

Smartphone optimized
The web api has been built for smartphone developers by smartphone developers. Only mobile devices friendly technologies are used (json instead of xml, rest instead of soap, etc.). As the recognition process is done in the cloud, the mobile device will not suffer from heavy processing and memory cost.

Multilingual : More than 40 languages are supported : Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Danish, German, Greek, English, Finnish, French , Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, etc.

Pay-per-use : Completely pay as you go. As low as $ 0.03 per request, you will be billed only for what you use. http://ocrapiservice.com/rates/

OcrApiService.com has been recently created to provide OCR services to smartphone and web developers around the world. OcrApiService.com helps developers to create amazing revenue making applications using a simple and efficient OCR service.

Visit ocrapiservice.com for more up to date information

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Verious Partners with Elance to Launch World's Largest Network of Mobile App Contract Developers, Designers and Service Providers

San Carlos, CA (PRWEB) November 08, 2011

Verious, Inc., the one-stop marketplace for mobile app development, and Elance, Inc., the world's leading platform for online employment, today announced that over 25,000 mobile professionals from the Elance network have been added to Verious existing network of mobile app component developers. Now, enterprise decision-makers and small business owners looking to quickly and cost-effectively develop new app featuresor entire new apps from scratchcan browse, review and even post requests to over 25,000 pre-screened, qualified mobile developers and app designers on http://www.Verious.com.

With the continued push to go mobile, enterprises are looking for ways to dramatically accelerate their mobile app development efforts. Additionally, restaurants, retailers, law offices and other main street businesses are looking to participate in the booming mobile app economy, said Anil Pereira, Founder and CEO of Verious. Our partnership with Elance exponentially expands our network of outsourced mobile app developers and broadens our marketplace to include designers and others who can help businesses create the assets they need to enhance existing apps or create entirely new apps for iOS, Android or other mobile devices.

Through their partnership, Verious and Elance have created two new categories in the Verious Marketplace: Find Contract Developers and Find Mobile App Projects.

The first category, Find Contract Developers, enables product managers, brand managers, small business owners and developers to browse a mobile app contractor directory which lists over 25,000 outsourced contract developers and designers skilled in developing iPhone/iPad apps, Android apps, app feature buttons, app icons, splash screens, or even multimedia features. These developer profiles come complete with details of a contractors capabilities, qualifications and ratings from prior projects.

The second category, Find Mobile App Projects, allows contract developers and designers to review postings for newly requested projects, submit their capabilities/credentials/profiles and bid on these projects accordingly.

Find Contract Developers and Find Mobile App Projects are both available now at http://www.Verious.com/Developer.

About Verious

Verious (http://www.Verious.com, @Veriously) is a mobile infrastructure company operating an online marketplace and license management service for mobile app development. The company launched in beta as a Finalist at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, CA in September, 2011.

"Verious" means "very serious, major, something cool". The company is backed by leading seed and angel investors and its management team includes industry veterans with experience at leading mobile, software and trusted services companies including American Express, Apple, Motorola, Oracle, Samsung, TRUSTe, VeriSign and VMWare. For more information, please visit http://www.Verious.com or follow us on Twitter @Veriously.

About Elance

Elance, the worlds leading platform for online employment, helps businesses hire and manage in the cloud.

For businesses looking to staff-up a team on an hourly or project basis, Elance offers instant access to qualified professionals who work online. Elance provides the tools to hire, view work as it progresses and pay for results. Elance is faster and more cost-effective than job boards, staffing firms and traditional outsourcing.

For skilled professionals who want to work online, Elance offers access to qualified clients, a virtual workplace and guaranteed pay for great work. Contractors have already earned more than $ 450 million on the Elance platform.

The company is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit Elance at http://www.elance.com.

Copyright Verious, Inc., 2011. Media inquiries may be directed to Laura(dot)Nunez(at)Verious(dot)com.

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