Text Capture: Image to Text

It seems everyone is going towards the subscription model, which I hate. I looked at many OCR apps and no matter what the description said, they always ended up in some subscription model. A lot of deceptive marketing out there. This app still kind of tricks you though. You download it and the OCR works, UNLESS you want to actually edit or copy that text. Behold the in-app purchase. It’s $1.99, but it’s a one-time fee to unlock that feature. I don’t think they had to hide that. The app is useless unless you pay it. Why not just say the app is not free, it’s $1.99? It’s totally worth that and I think given the other options out there, this is the best choice. Maybe not the most beautiful, but extremely intuitive. The accuracy is okay, but I’ll let you in on a little secret, everyone uses the same open source OCR library. So, the greatest influencer on accuracy is the quality and contrast of the scan. So I bought this app. If you want to buy another prettier one and pay $2.00 a month for some other app (for the rest of you life since you will likely forget you are paying) more power to you.

I found this app browsing and I couldn’t be happier!! My son is multi-lingual and this app is great for his studies. Just point and shoot and the text is copied...then you have multiple options to edit, translate (his favorite part) or read it back aloud (my favorite part). Look forward to seeing this easy to use app grow.

This is the best app for scanning text. You just point it to content and it works in a VERY intuitive way. It’s fast, easy and has a lot of options such as translating and reading. I give it 5 stars with no regret!

I tried all of them and this one works best. I tried the free ones as well but they messed up on the text too much. This one did the best job and is well worth the $2.99 to upgrade.

I’m having a great experience using this app so far. The text recognition works as good as advertised and being capable to translate and hear the text is great!