Text Capture: Image to Text 4+

Probably best bet for OCR

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.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the amazing review, FlashInPan! We are glad that you are having a great experience with Text Capture!

Not really useful

I really needed this for school because of accesibility purposes after I missed a week and needed to catch up while away, only to find out you have to pay to copy text? Rather, you have to pay to do ANYTHING to or with the text? It completely defeats the purpose in my opinion. I entirely understand the payed purchase neccessity, but what am I going to do after scanning the text? Stare at it? I already have the writing in front of me, why would I need to scan it if I didn’t need to export or edit it? If you plan on using this app, plan on not using it at all unless you want to pay for it. It isn’t a high price at all, but I personally don’t think it’s worth it. I would rather find a different app. And I apologize if there is some other use of text that isn’t copying, exporting, or editing, I’m just not aware of any :) Also, it caught all the text really well, so if I were able to use it it would be really useful. The only things is that since I can’t edit, when it finds excess text on the screen from tabs or keys, you can’t change that.

Fantastic!! no complaints!

this ocr has far exceeded my expectations in every way. speed, accuracy, ease of use.
i have a very well reviewed desktop scanner, and this iphone ocr beats it in terms of speed hands down - no comparison - and the accuracy seems about equal - both high enough for my use. perhaps one or two errors every 100 characters.
i’m a law school student with lots of reading and writing, and this has really changed the way i work. scan text, email editable file to laptop, cut and paste, do whatever you want to do, all seamlessly. no more manual typing to create an editable file. am i going over the top if i were to say that this product has delivered the greatest expectation-to-actual-result positive ratio among anything i’ve ever owned? i don’t think so. for a cup of coffee. when are you coming out with the capability to ocr asian language? that’s what i’m waiting for. you have set a very high standard for yourself.