SmartScan +OCR: with TextReader

I needed to be able to scan a store receipt and have it output into a text file so I can put into MS Werd (Didnt want any issues naming another software in review). <br/><br/>This app didn't do to well with receipts and iphone 5. Maybe it was due to the camera quality or the case I had on the phone which had its own lens cover built into it. Other apps had issues also with receipts that I tried. <br/><br/>I have a iphone 6+ now and just tried using this app. It did pretty well with a store receipt. It still got a few of the characters wrong but most of them were correct which can be fixed in the text editor of your choice.

I chose a screenshot of English text from a news website to test the OCR. Even after cropping the image to one paragraph with a large and clear font, it mixed up simple words and entire lines of text. Not recommended.

A bit hard to navigate and won’t save the picture of scanned documents along with the text it saves. There are likely better options; don’t waste your time with this one.

Good quality and fast OCR. Just make sure to use regular paragraphed text, no handwriting or spreadsheets.

Tried it on picture of text and this app did OCR very good.

First I’m not sure how it opens all your photos the first time when you did not give the app permission to view your photos the first time you ever use the app.. but besides that. Basics, in edit of either type of upload/photo, there is no undo button/option. Also, basic like cropping and moving dimensions doesn’t work. It gives an overlay over a blank screen, but if you move it around and return to the photo, you see it must’ve moved around according to this overlay w corner points. <br/><br/>Anyway lots of basic problems and I guess I need to change my iCloud account passwords now.

Yes the app hangs when you start the scan or 3X. It doesn't do anything right now.

it does not even load. <br/><br/>do not bother wasting your time or money on this app.