Take a photo or choose an existing one from your library and the app will instantly extract all the text that appears on it. Thanks to this, we will be able to convert physical documents into digital notes that we can edit, translate or share with many applications.
If you are looking for a tool to capture text, OCR Scanner is your app.
HOW TO COPY TEXT FROM PHYSICAL DOCUMENTS:
As soon as we enter the application, we will access its simple main screen:
From it we can take a screenshot of the document from which we want to extract the text or choose a photo from our gallery where the writing we want to scan is found. To do this we only have to press the button marked with a photo camera, in the upper left part of the screen:
Once the image is chosen, we can choose flat recognition of the image or crop it to leave only the part that we want to process. We can also choose the language in which the text is, to help make an extraction of it, as perfect as possible.
After this and thanks to OCR (character recognition) technology, it only takes a few seconds to accurately recognize the text.
Once the text is recognized we can translate it (payment option) by clicking on the button that appears in the lower left part of the screen, view the photo by clicking on the "eye" that we see in the lower menu, or delete it pressing the trash can option.
If we want, we could modify the text by clicking on it. In this way we could correct any error in it that could have occurred when processing the photograph.
To share the extracted text on different social platforms and apps, or to copy it to the clipboard, we simply have to press the SHARE button that appears at the top right of the screen.
Every text extraction action we perform will be stored on the app's main screen.
Another thing we have to take into account is that this app to copy text from a physical document, only works when we have a connection to Wifi or 4G/3G/EDGE.
Here we pass you a video in which you can see its simple interface and how it works:
OUR OPINION ON OCR SCANNER:
From this app we highlight its clean, agile and interface totally focused on your productivity. It works perfectly and leaves out any option that does not serve what this application has really been created for. It is very effective.
By recognizing 32 languages, it allows us to copy text from almost any language, which will help us when translating some text written in another language that we don't understand.
This type of app normally does not fail when extracting the text, but if it fails, it allows us to edit the text from the application itself.
OCR Scanner seems very useful to us and allows us to use it as a physical document scanner to copy text, translate, save endless possibilities that will help us make it easier for us the transcription of physical text to digital.
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Annotated version: 1.1.2
Compatibility:
Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
