Does more than I expected, even using the free version
This app works well, and its ability to work with so many languages and to interface almost seamlessly with my iPad’s translation function has come in very handy (especially this week when a friend brought me chocolate bars from an international trip with ingredient labels in multiple languages I can’t read). I can live with the free version’s requirement to watch an ad to do additional scans after a few uninterrupted scans in a single day. I’ve only hit that limit on rare occasions, and the ads are tolerable so far when that happens. I used to develop and test software for many years. I will always appreciate a simple and reliable app with a reasonably intuitive interface that does a few key things well.
I’ve downloaded prob a dozen or so different text scanner apps n this one is THE best one out there 100%. Doesn’t BOMBARD you w RELENTLESS ADs like many (MOST) of the other scanner apps. Some of them are absolutely ridiculous, can’t even use it there’s so many ads but not this app! SO RELIEVED finally found this one and was able to actually USE IT (what a concept!) and get my work done. Easy to use, intuitive layout. Does what it claims n does it well. ONLY text scan app worth having. I would know! ( Literally Downloaded EVERY single free text scanner app available, tried EVERY single one of them. The rest are COMPLETE n utter GARBAGE. You’re WELCOME for saving you all the time n hassle I went through finding this gem of an app! ) 🙏🏼🥰✅💯💙💜💚🤓😎🥹👍🏼👌🏼
Friends share images of long recipes because they never typed them out to begin with, but my recipe app won't display them. This last one was going to be a pain, so after a couple of moments of frustration, I thought, “Surely, there must be an OCR app that works with things in Photos.” I don't need a lot. I'm happy to “pay” by looking at ads. This seems to be a very powerful app, but for basic use, it's very straight forward and easy to understand. Select your image, select the language, press the checkmark, see your text. I was able to copy from there and paste right into my recipe keeper, without extra steps. SO easy! LOVE this!
By far the best OCR scanning app I’ve used (and I’ve used a number of apps over the years). My main concern is the attempt to normalize subscriptions for mobile apps. The ecosystem for iOS is too varied and plentiful to warrant such a pricing model. I also do not plan out my usage of apps by time periods. If you offered an option for a one time purchase, it would be more appealing to me. Since this kind of app is not something I use routinely, I’m only using it for a month and canceling my subscription afterwards.
This app does (mostly) perform OCR for Japanese text, but I’ve noticed several deficiencies. First, the converted text is often out of order from the original. The time needed to correct this is sometimes greater than the time needed to manually type the text myself, which makes this app pointless in those cases. Second, sometimes there is missing text. The text both before and after will get converted, but the text in between is simply missing. It’s not an issue with photo quality, so I don’t know why this happens. Maybe it’s related to the first issue above? When the original text is incorrectly reordered, maybe some of it is reordered out of existence? Third, the folder functionality is insufficient. Scans can be moved into a folder, but it seems to be one-way only. I haven’t been able to move a scan out of one folder into another. I’m also not able to manually reorder the scans in a folder the way I want. Overall, this app has potential, but the current functionality hasn’t really improved my efficiency. With all of it’s deficiencies, this app takes about the same amount of time as manually typing the text myself.
This is a lifesaver but when I work at Walmart the limit per day will increase, I will get my phone incase I see text to send to someone, then I use this to text messages 50x faster. This is a life saver, I can even send descriptions for skills in Clicker Heroes much much faster instead of having to look at it and type. This is extremely helpful, useful but useless at the 5th one, and immediately important.
This is the first OCR on my mobile that I've used, so cannot compare to others, but what I've seen isn't awesome. Seems to get most words correct, although there was an odd switching out of a phrase from its original place to another, and one typo (not present in original). It also doesn't recognize fractions, which is a bit annoying when reading a recipe. What is super annoying is the interstitial ads that pop up when moving from one screen to the next. For that reason, I'm deleting it from my phone. The more subtle location at the bottom of the home screen is fine-- doesn't bother me so much.
The advertising doesn’t bother me in this app because it will not cut in front but is showing after the job is done. I don’t scan a lot so limit of 5 for free is ok FOR ME. If I need extra I can wait patiently until the next day. Thanks for developing this tool. A previous bug I reported was fixed so again thank you.!
Firstly, the OCR is subpar and works only half of the time (I have a great camera and ensured that the lighting was perfect). Second, after every action you are bombarded with ads that just get annoying. Thirdly, ONLY 5 documents per day? What???? That is insane. Why would someone pay a ridiculous amount of money for a subscription if they have to scan more than that?? Finally, people monetize everything these days, there is no more open-source free-to-use apps anymore, very disappointed with this app.
I already loved this app! Probably the most accurate and easy to use for text book → device text. But recently I wasn't charged or anything and I was able to scan more than 5 images. So thanks you! Can't appreciate or rate this app high enough!
This app is really helpful for transferring text in my textbook to a word document. The reason I didn’t give 5 starts is because it can be a little finicky with words near the spine of the book. Where the page curls towards the spine- the app seems to add or miss text near the inside edges. This can take some time to go through and correct, but still a very useful app.
I had photos (jpg) of various pages of document and was able to quickly use this application's OCR ability to generate text files -- which were impeccably accurate -- from those jpg documents. Simple to use. I downloaded it and five minutes later, the OCR was all done!
Great job capturing text. So why 2 stars? THE ADS!!! Even after paying the monthly fee for unlimited scans, every time I send the text via message, I have to sit through an ad. Every time now. And we use this app to record all of our business text messages to bill clients for our time. Therefore, we’re searching for a better app that doesn’t shove ads at us and slow down this process, a process that needs to move quickly or else we lose money.
Doesn’t remember which camera was last used, just defaults to the main one. After you take a picture, you have to take a useless step to press a “use photo” button before you get to the text extract screen (a ‘cancel’ button could be here if the image is not good), and you only get 5 scans per day(!) unless you pay to upgrade or waste time watching another ad. Uninstalled. (My review didn’t seem to be saving, hopefully this doesn’t result in multiple entries)
This app does just what i need it to convert image to text. The other app i was looking at has a download size thats 70MB BIGGER than this. Its like come on. Thanks for staying optimized. OCR isn’t something i do often but when i don’t want a monstrous app sitting on my phone. LOVE IT, its small and powerful. Keep up the good work!
Makes photo to text super easy, you do have to double check the wording, but nothing more than a quick skim for myself. I crop photos of physicians orders with my phone, then upload them without PHI, then I’m able to just paste the text directly into the patients chart. LOVE this app!
The only thing you really get for the paid version is (1) no adds, and (2) more scans per day. There’s no batch upload—you still have to add the scans one by one. It is tedious and boring and I can’t imagine anyone wanting to do more than five of these a day. Just use the free version.
Works perfectly. Might take a bit because there are lots of ads. Also I wish we could crop pictures we take to reduce extra words. But still it does what it’s supposed too!
I have downloaded and tried many apps that purported to offer OCR functionality in their scan applications, only to be extremely disappointed. This app is simple (as in, not complicated) and very intuitive. I wish I’d found this app long ago. Works great!
It works good, have ads on the free version but is what you expect nowadays, I was able to convert image to text on an iPhone 6s so I guess it works even better on modern iPhones
I just paid for a month which allegedly gave me 50 ad free scans per day. WRONG! I got ads after even my first scan and after my first 4 tests, it made me watch an extended ad to scan anymore. Why 4 tests, because even after zooming in to scan only one paragraph at a time of my handwritten text, it comes out as absolute gibberish, maybe recognizing one sentence out of every six. This is terrible and I will be requesting an immediate refund.
This App scans text with 99% accuracy. It even can scan pages from books where the pages are not flat but curve because of the binding. Really GREAT App!!! It’s also very user friendly!!!
At first I thought this would be a clumsy barely usable app. But it turns out it works super well . It has fantastic language support and is overall very good. The only drawback is the ads but I’m not burgers by it. The practicality of the app far outward the annoying ads.
and professional. I used many applications to convert photos to text. But none of them were like this. It is especially great for the Persian language. I am very satisfied.
The free version of this app is remarkably accurate. It’s convenient that you can either use an old image OR tale a fresh photo. You may never need anything more. One of the best iApps ever! Try it: You’ll like it!
So, I got this app cause my shoulders were hurting sitting at my computer reading stuff for school, so I got this. I really liked it at first because I just had to take a picture and it would do it. But, I took five pictures, and when I wanted to do another one, it said it only lets you do 5! Like seriously??? That ruins everything! I was gonna give this 5 stars, but it’s so not fair. “Only 5 per day.” Like no.
This app works just the way I expected. I haven’t had any problems since installing almost two years now..... imagine that. I use it daily. It does what it needs to do and that’s exactly how I like it.
We can put a man on the moon, but why can’t anyone invent a batch OCR program that works? This sounded promising, but ... - Can only access photos from the main camera roll ONLY. - Can’t access albums - Can’t access Google Drive - Can’t access Photos - Doesn’t seem to see the latest photos on the camera roll; only those from yesterday. - Force quitting & restarting app doesn’t fix. - Selecting multiple photos in the camera roll doesn’t allow them to be sent to the app. - Maybe if I wait until tomorrow, the photos I want to show up will show up? Or maybe they won’t? Or maybe I’ll look for another all that’s more fully thought out?
Love the app. Only feedback I have is to make selection box not expand all the way to edge of the iPhone screen. It makes it difficult to select all the left side and the right side of the letter/photo.
I used this app to extract my Italian notes from pictures I took. I don’t have bad handwriting but it wasn’t able to extract the text correctly. I made sure the language was Italian but it didn't seem like that was the issue. I tried it out with different notes and it still didn’t work. I normally don’t write reviews but this app was very disappointing and not helpful.
Works great, as expected! Came back to give the five stars it deserves (I’d said three when it interrupted a session with a “rate us now” popup) but wanted to say how much we like this app.
The text recognition of this app is pretty good. However it has an annoying tendency to add lots of whitespace / carriage returns after the text, which is a huge nuisance when copy-pasting. Please either remove the trailing CR or provide a setting to remove it. Only thing that’s stopping me from leaving a 5-star review!!
There is a new ad every time you touch the screen (not exaggerating). That said, it’s pretty simple and the OCR semis to work very well. I could not get the original scan image out of the ap, so you should take a separate shot if you need the original.
I love this app!! It’s so easy to use.. I hate reading in the worst reader.. so I just scan, select the text I need to read and then I have Read Aloud or my translate app read it to me!! I’m in love..💕
the app's functionality was restored with the 9/19 update: but now ads block the work screen and are intrusive and obnoxious.I gave this a 3 due to the rapid correction of the prior non functionality issue: the ads are a great blight on this app and may soon make me revise the evaluation to a 2.
Good job, just we need to scan the text of the photo, with no enter lines, it needs to import some smart touch to different enter lines and no enter lines. With all respect to the app staff ♥️
I take notes on everything I read and any poem I find inspiring. This will save me SO MUCH TIME. I am really grateful for this app. It works very well.
This is great you guys! I am studying IPA symbols for diction so I only need descriptions read aloud. This is great so I do not hear the same word over and over between spelling and phonetics. Thank you.
This app is accurate and easy to use. It would be nice (read "honest") if the publisher clearly indicated this "free" version is only a trial version. The fully useable edition of the app is an auto-renew subscription.
No thanks! No one is going to continuously use this to scan documents. So the subscription is irrelevant and inappropriate. There are apps out there with more features and one time payment. Not worth the $7.99 a month subscription. More like rental fee to use. The app will never have new content for it to be worthy of a subscription. Do not support.
The free version has the same annoying ad video playing LOUD every time you use it. So if you have to convert several pages in one sitting, YIKES! Does the app work, however. Yes it does. But if the developer has to shove this many ads down my throat to use, sorry, but I don’t trust you to buy the premium version.
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