OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION APPLIED TO ANDROID-BASED BILINGUAL TRANSLATOR APPLICATION (ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN) TO SIGN LANGUAGE

This research focused on the methods of optical character recognition technologies that applied to android-based translator application.The high number of deaf-born babies in Indonesia causes a high number of children who will grow but cannot recognize various types of lettersyet because they are limited by their physical abilities. So, to help introduce letters more broadly, effectively, and efficiently, the latest technological innovations are needed, one of which is the application of converting images containing text into text and translating into sign language. In making this android-based application used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology by using Tesseract as an engine of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for character or letter recognition.