OCR Scanner - Images & documents to text Reviews – Page 4
3/5 rating based on 50 reviews. Read all reviews for OCR Scanner - Images & documents to text for iPhone.
OCR Scanner - Images & documents to text is free iOS app published by Smart Mobile Software
Didn't work
Pegspuzzles
Trend numerous times but it did not convert. Now I'm trying again and it wants me to buy more credits. No other options. Just an awful app. Very disappointed.
5 free daily MISLEADING. 5 free lifetime.
Dave 365
My app only allowed perform 5 free scans ever - then insists you buy more. Saying 5 free daily is misleading at best.
Impressed
MPG2020
Mobile OCR allows me to scan pdf and convert to text which I can copy to Pages, etc. Formatting initially disappears, but reappears when the text is copied and pasted into word processing app. I have tried it with some very challenging formatting and text styles, including italics and small print. It handled all very well. It does require wifi to convert text. Only negative is that the 5 daily credits do not seem to replenish, so it is not very useful as a free app (unless you uninstall and reinstall after 5 scans). However, unlimited scans seem to be a great investment. Customer support responded quickly and generously to my inquiry about their guarantee.
Works, a Sort of
PCHomepage
The first test of a couple paragraphs of German text from a low resolution scan seemed to work really well, giving far better accuracy than a few other apps that I tried. It appeared to have lost the formatting but emailing it to myself, the formatting returned. However, a second test of longer text in English simply gave nothing. No gibberish, just nothing. Running the same image, still loaded, again still gave nothing but took off another "point" from the available usages. About the business model, if I buy software, I expect to have purchased it to use as needed but this company requires payment for each run of the OCR. If you have many scans to do and unlimited funds, this may be the way to go but not for me. It's rather an absurd way of doing things!
Works
Anushka
I only tried the free version, but it seemed to work. Had to take a very clear & straight photo of text & crop it in photo app first. But it was an old ichthyology text & captured all the words perfectly, so that is something! Saved me from manually handtyping (transcribing). Will probably buy full version.
Free version not worth it.
Parkerdr248
Out of my five free scans, one resulted in an error; retried the same image and got good text. One other try resulted in good results. Holding on to my last two free scans for something important.
Doesn't give 5 free daily as advertised
TimsTechShop
It only let me do 4 then hosed up on the 5th scan. I can come back daily or weekly and it still says I have no free one to use. Stuck on saying I have 0/5