Abstract: Proposed system that can extract a text from the image, the extracted text is translated into a specific language. This application is useful for Tourists and travelers to understand the native country language. They simply use their mobile camera, simply click the image of the signboards, menus etc. The OCR engine used in the system extracts the text from the image. Tourist and Travelers simply use their Android phone camera for clicking the image.

Keywords: Android, OCR, Tesseract Engine.