- Price$0.99
- CategoryUtilities
- Versions1 archived
- Installable1 of 1
- AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
- SellerABBYY
- Bundle IDcom.abbyy.linkgrabber
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issueWith ABBYY LinkGrabber, you can open printed Web addresses on your iPhone 4, 3GS or 3G. To run the application on an iPhone 3G, you need iOS 3.1 and a Griffin Clarifi case.
All you need to do is take a photo of a printed Web address and select an action—open it in your iPhone browser, save it, or forward it by e-mail or SMS.
LinkGrabber uses ABBYY’s Mobile OCR Technology to capture Web addresses from any printed text, including newspapers, advertisements, and business cards.
Captured Web addresses can immediately be edited, saved to an address book, copied to the clipboard, or forwarded by e-mail or SMS.
With LinkGrabber you will no longer need to enter Web addresses by hand. You can also easily save useful Web address.
The application works on iPhone 4, 3GS, and 3G devices. To run the application on an iPhone 3G, you need iOS 3.1 and a Griffin Clarifi case.
Main features: - Immediately open the captured Web address in your browser - Edit, save and copy Web addresses to the clipboard - Create a new contact or add the Web address to an existing one - Forward captured Web addresses by e-mail or SMS - Store photos of Web addresses on your iPhone - Capture and use Web addresses from photos stored on your iPhone
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 16, 2011 | 1.1 | — | 12 | $0.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 15Use from time to time. Not bad for $0.99
This app saves you from having to type in a URL by shooting it with the camera in this app, selecting the portion of the image that contains the URL, processing the result, correcting the characters that didn't scan and then finally clicking on the link. Alternately, you could just type in the URL, and be done in a quarter of the time.
Go ahead, guys!
This works great with links printed on things (i.e. no handwritten links). The bigger the font, the better this app can read it. There is no zoom function, so if the link is printed small, you'll just have to get as close as the camera can focus and try to grab the link from there. Also, it seems like the only links this app can grab are the ones that start with and show the "www." before the rest of the link.
Only app I have that Does not work, wasted .99 c
as always great
Good app for my biz!
Tried multiple addresses printed on numerous things. Not a single one worked. Absolute waste of money! And it's not even that great if it did work. You take a picture, then you still need to drag corners and crop. And then process. I could type it in by then!
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