DocLens - OCR
Local OCR & Translate
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Draw a box. Extract exactly that line. Offline frame-select OCR with on-device translation and barcode scanning. You point, it reads — your files never leave your phone.
DocLens is a fully offline frame-select OCR tool: draw a box, extract exactly the text you circled, and translate it on your device. The liability clause in a contract, the date on a court ruling, one verbatim line from an interview: you choose the block, it reads only that. Headers, footers, ads and noise are never touched.
Key features:
1. Frame-select OCR: shoot or pick a photo, drag a box, and only the text inside is recognized. Low-confidence lines are dashed-underlined for line-by-line proofreading before translation.
2. Accurate recognition: selectable recognition languages with automatic per-line detection for mixed Chinese and English; handwriting and rotated text supported; Enhance and Retry rescues poor scans.
3. On-device translation: results are translated paragraph by paragraph for fluent output. Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German and Spanish are supported, and language packs can be downloaded in advance.
4. QR and barcode scanning: frame a code to open URLs in an in-app browser, dial numbers, compose emails, open locations, or copy Wi-Fi passwords and contact fields.
5. Fully offline: recognition, translation and barcode scanning all run on your device. No account, no analytics, no cloud upload, and no network access from shutter to text.
6. Minimal permissions: DocLens never asks for full photo library access, only permission to save your exports. Data stays in the local sandbox and database.
7. Torch and Enhance Retry: turn on the light for close-up documents, and re-run recognition with boosted contrast when a scan comes out poorly.
Membership:
New users get a free 7-day trial, extendable once by another 7 days from the membership page. After the trial, you can still scan free once per day. VIP is a one-time purchase: no subscription, no ads, no tracking.
Great for contract review, hearing and meeting notes, interview transcription, research excerpts, receipt and form data extraction, and translating foreign signs.
Your files go nowhere. That is what makes DocLens different: it does not make decisions for you. It hands judgment back to you, and keeps privacy structural with on-device computing.
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1. Added
Minimal single-scan flow: frame right after shooting or picking a photo, confirm and get results immediately; go back to re-adjust, with the previous box pre-filled.
QR/barcode recognition: QR, EAN, UPC, Code128 and more. URL codes open automatically in the in-app browser; phone numbers dial, emails compose, locations open Maps; Wi-Fi/vCard/calendar fields are shown with copy; plain text can be copied, searched or translated; a framed URL as text shows a link card with one tap.
OCR accuracy: selectable recognition languages (up to 2, default zh/en); upgraded to Vision Rev3 with per-line language detection; photos captured at max resolution; tiny text no longer filtered; new Language Correction toggle for number-heavy documents.
Camera torch for faster focus and sharper close-up documents.
Translation pack manager: download language packs ahead of time in Settings, with readiness hints for recognition languages.
VIP membership & 7+7 trial: 7-day trial extendable once by 7 more days for free; after expiry you can still scan free once per day; a welcome letter for new users with a "don't show today" option.
Low-confidence lines are dashed-underlined and can be proofread line by line before translating.
Default export titles now use local "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss", no more same-day duplicates.
2. Changed
Translation quality: recognized lines are re-grouped into full paragraphs before translation; a framed single URL becomes a link card instead of being translated.
A pinned recognition language is passed directly as the translation source, reducing misdetection from OCR typos.
Trial policy: "10 days then locked" replaced by "7 days + one free 7-day extension", with a daily free quota instead of locking features.
Restore Purchases moved to the bottom of the membership page; the settings card is streamlined to one entry.
Fixed: installed language packs repeatedly asking to download; export titles with wrong dates across time zones, same-day duplicates and illegal filename characters.
3. Removed
Multi-page capture and batch recognition: the thumbnail grid, batch progress and "Apply to All" are gone with the single-scan flow; single results still save as PDF/TXT into History.
Family/JianBox integration: Send to JianBox, doclens:// import and the App Group shared container are removed — fewer system capabilities requested.
Standalone Restore Purchases entry in Settings (moved into the membership page).
The developer, 涛 刘, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- 涛 刘
- Size
- 46.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- DocLens - OCR $9.90
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2026 PrismTao. All rights reserved.

