FineReader Pro: PDF Scanner Reviews – Page 9
5/5 rating based on 217 reviews. Read all reviews for FineReader Pro: PDF Scanner for iPhone.
FineReader Pro: PDF Scanner is paid iOS app published by ABBYY USA Software House Inc
Japanese OCR fail
kraemder
It advertises that it supports Japanese so I got it. I think it’s terribly unfair that there is no trial period and the AppStore has told me that I do not qualify for a refund. Anyway. I bought the app to scan Japanese paperbacks to text files for reading on the voice dream text to speech app. It seems to scan the books ok although I have yet to figure out how to redo a scan when you know it came out wrong like you hand is covering some of the text without opening all the images and then scrolling to end to finally pull up the most recent image to delete it and redo it. But the big problem with Japanese is that the text is right to left and top to bottom. The app can’t seem to figure this out all of you OCR it locally on your phone and the resulting text is nonsense. If you do the option to send it to the server for the OCR then it does a better job but it only partially understands how Japanese books are formatted. The app scans two pages at a time. So the server knows that the text on each page starts in the top right and goes down and then to the left. But it doesn’t realize that the page order also goes right to left. So it will totally mix up the page order. The result is a pretty useless scan. I can only guess that they don’t have Japanese speakers working there and no Japanese customers.
The resolution is pretty bad
पार्थेश
When I do PDFs the quality is really bad. $5 app is better than FineScanner. I mean it has to be really good quality. Some of the things on PDFs you can’t even read. That was not the reason I paid $80.