I would like to do the following: take picture and convert the text in image into encoded text . I'm just wondering if there are any companies providing OCR APIs for iPhone and / or Android phones?
take picture
convert the text in image into encoded text
Find More Information Here - ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for Iphone
Apparently there is a Google Tesseract OCR 2.4 port for Android. See Using tesseract on android
Have you watched the Tesseract OCR ?
Also mentioned here: Business Card Reader or OCR Library for iPhone SDK