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OCR Instantly app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 7424 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: Chun Yeen Mok
Free
Current version: 1.5.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 02 Aug 2015
App size: 36.48 Mb

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is a technology to convert image to text. This apps takes an image and converts it into digitized text which can then be shared to other applications such as Email and SMS, or simply copy paste the text to anywhere you like.

Short video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHQ1LrYtP0

= Important Notes =
* Garbage in, garbage out - make sure text is sharp and large enough for recognition.
* Handwritten text will not work.
* Text on top of unclean background (images or borders/lines in excel sheet) will not work.
* OCR results for Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese and Korean are not ideal.

= Features =
* Offline OCR engine - doesnt require sending data to servers for processing
* Simplicity - Very simple to use
* Image can be cropped to focus on specific text area
* Digitized text can be copied to clipboard, or shared with other apps directly
* Huge language support

= Supports more than 60 languages =
Afrikaans, Albanian, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Frankish, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Middle English, Middle French, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese