SnapScanner

Do you ever wish you had a scanner with you at all times? SnapScanner fixes this common issue by using a new and efficient engine that will scan an image and convert all the text within it to save you the hassle of typing it all out manually! SnapScanner is an immense time-saver and is a must have for anyone on the go.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Utilities	$0.99	Mike Chessin	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Features:
+ Take pictures of books, magazines, newspapers, or any other printed materials that contains text, and scan it so you don't have to manually type the text yourself
+ Uses a powerful yet efficient new OCR engine
+ Automatic edge detection, smart cropping
+ Use new pictures or use existing pictures for quick scanning
+ Automatically maintains text formatting from the source image
+ Saves your scanned texts in chronological order
+ Includes the ability to manually edit the scanned text if necessary
+ Copy the scanned text or save the photo that you used
+ Bright and colorful user interface for iOS 8
+ Share your OCR'ed text to many social networks including: Tumblr, Twitter, E-Mail, SMS, Facebook, Evernote, Flickr, or Dropbox
+ AirPrint
+ Multilingual: Supports over 38 languages listed below

Supported Languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, German, Greek, English, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Reviews

Doesn't work!
DaylightRobberyAvoid!!

This is a bogus app don't waste your money, I've tried all kinds of lighting conditions and simple text and it still doesn't work. I don't know how apps like this make it onto the iTunes store it's daylight robbery

Garbage
Thirtieth30130

Doesn't work. I want my 2 bucks back.

Works sometimes
Jshmarid

Update: while I believe the below is still accurate I believe that I have found the solution. What you need is an app like Genius Scan or Scanpages that can take the picture, crop it, and clean it -->> then export to your gallery. Then use this app to grab the image and OCR it. It works pretty well then. I took a whole page from a approx 7.5"x9.25 inch page and it was not laying flat. The only thing to further consider is how far away you shoot the image, too close and the high resolution will not allow for the entire text to be scanned, even if it is all in the original image.. Takeaway: get a good scan app and back up when you take the shot. Hope this helps!!! I understand the frustration of the other reviewers, but it can work. First, the reason that flatbed scanners work so well with OCR is that they produce dimensionally orthographic images, which is to say the image and the scanner are parallel and not corrupted by awkward camera angles -->> also isolating light source and using scanning light rather than a flat image. When taking a picture, basically none of that is true and the third dimension of camera angle really muddies the water. Also, this is 2 dollar app, so you know, it ain't all sunshine and roses. But, I have noticed that it works almost acceptably with my 3GS running iOS5, but not reliably with the i4S. All in all, totally worth it for a free app, almost worth it for a $.99 app, needs much work as a $1.99 app. The bugs need fixing. GOD bless America!

It does kinda work, but......
Mona05

It worked, but I had to use a scanner app to crop and clean the document first. Also, it didn't recognize Japanese at all even though it said it would. What a scam!!!

Sort of works
Maslink

It is reasonably accurate ( in English at least) if you take a picture or zoom on to the point where you can see ~30 words...couldn't get it to recognize text when using a whole page - even if text very clear on whole image. Would be more useful if the app allowed you to 'box in ' the section of the photo that contained the words that you wanted to recognize.

Easy to Use
AsteroidB612

Intuitive interface. OCR picks up most characters when the photo is clear, and it is easy to touch up the text after scanning.

Scam
dr Jv

Dosnt work, dont buy

Best OCR App!
Chessin

I downloaded this app today and so far I am very impressed! ?

Doesn't work
TexG8r

Crashes more often than not and when it doesn't crash, it doesn't get the OCR right. Waste of purchase price. Decent GUI and I like the "note" feature.....but useless if it doesn't work. Fix the crashing and the OCR engine and you'll get a better rating.