- Price$0.99
- CategoryProductivity
- Versions1 archived
- Installable1 of 1
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
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- Bundle IDde.exactcode.Test
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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For best results with OCRKit, please follow these guidelines:
• Please make sure, that the text to be recognized is sufficiently illuminated. • If the font is very large, please hold the camera at good distance to the document. • The iPhone might not recognize that you want to shoot in landscape mode when you hold the iPhone parallel to the desk. If you want the camera to take pictures in landscape mode, please make sure, that the camera symbol changed orientation. • Take sharp photos. Make sure the text is clearly readable and not blurred.
Perform Optical Character Recognition on photographs taken on the iPhone. Save text from documents while on the go. OCRKit performs all image processing including the OCR directly on your iPhone. No image data is transferred to servers over the air, your data plan is saved and OCRKit just works while abroad.
OCRKit Key Features:
• Includes editable history of previously recognized texts. • Allows to edit the recognition result and copy and paste the text into other Apps including Mail. • Supports iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. • Process PDF files from other applications. • Includes the following OCR languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Norwegian.
Unfortunately we can not answer to iTunes comments, please contact us directly at [email protected] for support and future product enhancement requests.
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 3 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 7, 2010 | 1.1 | — | 8 | $4.99 |
| April 13, 2012 | — | — | 20 | $2.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 22Crashes constantly
I mean. It's okay. But there are TONS of mistakes. I shot a very small section of text, the image appears clear to me, but I literally get words like "“‘/3j2j;;" .... is that an English word I've missed?
I use OCRKit on my mac and was curious how the tool would work on the iPhone. My only tests so far were a letter from my stock broker under dim light with an iPhone 4, but it works pretty well. As others have mentioned, you really have to keep an eye on the camera orientation when taking a picture – look at the camera icon. If it's wrong you get complete non-sense characters. If you are "scanning" in landscape format, it's probably easiest to lock the screen orientation first. The app really could use a confirmation screen with options to rotate and crop the picture before running OCR. If it had that, I'm sure it'd be 5 stars. As-is I'd give it 3 or 4 stars, landing on 4 because so many have given it 1 star just because they didn't figure out this usability problem.
And it does OCR just fine. But it's a bit of a one trick pony. There are no tools to export recognized text - just copy it for pasting somewhere else. You can't save PDFs or text to Dropbox, Evernote, or anywhere else. You can't edit the text. You can't give recognized blocks a title, organize them in folders, or anything else like that. At the very least it should have an Open In... capability. So I am awarding it four stars for its core function, but beware that it's hard to handle the output in a meaningful way. Hopefully, the developers will address this. Soon. Then it will be worth 5 stars.
I tried to OCR a page of simple text, under very controlled lighting conditions, and several tries never got anywhere near a decent recognition. Several tries produced total gibberish. The best of triads managed to get about 33% of the text correct.
Now, this really accurate OCR App provides the history, I've been waiting for. Aside you can choose a language for the text to be recognized. Nice job - works really great on my iPhone 4. I discovered, that it is important to let the camera auto orientation identify if you hold the iPhone in landscape or portrait view while photographing s.th. on the desk in top view. Otherwise you can't get good results.
I'm pleasantly surprised at how fast the page generates text! (just a few seconds!!) Also, it's interesting that, I was using fairly blurry text from some screen captures I'd taken from apps on my iPad. As long as you use correct orientation, this baby spews out 95% accurate words... Maybe better with something better to capture the pic :) Hmmm. Possibilities here, people. I'm thinking I got a good program after all! Glad I spent the money.
Great idea. I really wanted this to work but on my 3GS it simply doesn't work at all. Man I do wish there was a way that the App store had a return policy. This really was a waste of $5.
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