Perfect OCR App Reviews

Id give it 4.5 if I could. It works very well on standard print, and Ive even managed to scan and convert to text from Kindle for Windows 8. This has gotten out of tight spots when researching, writing and presenting. Smaller text, yellowed paper, and any fancier text produce poorer results. It is quite fast for OCR, and I rarely take more than one pic per scan. If I see one fault, it is the line breaks it puts in that dont seem to match what is on the page. That makes for some tedious editing.

I purchased this app specifically to grab citations from textbooks. It works ok if the text is not highlighted (but of course everything I want to OCR is highlighted). Once highlighted this app is incapable of performing OCR. Im not going to scan before highlighting as it would disrupt my reading flow (I scan when done reading). This was a waste of money. Now I have to purchase another app.

Accurate even though conditions were not ideal.

I was trying to scan some old bulletins (typewritten, so pretty standard font). What I wanted was a searchable PDF file of the bulletin. This product will not help me with that. The OCR was OK. If the text was prose, then it did a good job. It fell down when the type was not perfectly clear, and when ALL CAPS were used (which the editor used often for peoples names). Also the bulletins tended to have little pictures spread across the page. That tripped it up, and they were converted to random gibberish characters. My rating would have been higher, and I would find the app useful if it could mail the entire PDF when I was done, with the error-filled text, so that I could correct it offline. The description says it, but Ill be clear -- when you send a "image" PDF, your only option is to send an image of the last page. Nothing else. Not the first, nor all, just the last. If you send the _text_ as PDF, it can be multi-page, but I didnt catch that subtlety before purchasing.

Software works as advertised. Like most things, the more time you put into it the better the output is. Good product.

Very useful app but needs an update for the iPhone 6.

Ive compared about 6 OCR apps, and this one seems to have the highest accuracy rate for the documents I scan. It isnt perfect (more like 80%), but that seems to be where the technology currently tops out for phone OCR.

I really liked the original but ABSOLUTELY HATE this one. The directions are totally ambiguous.

I used it to scan a printed page of text that had been created using MS Word and it had a lot of trouble. Not helpful to me at all.