OCR Instantly Pro

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About this app

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is a technology to convert image to text. This apps takes an image and converts it into digitized text which can then be shared to other applications such as Email and SMS, or simply copy paste the text to anywhere you like.

Full length review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5s948BJhRI

= Important Notes =
Garbage in, garbage out - make sure text is sharp and large enough for recognition.
**Make sure text is upright (horizontally aligned to the app)** Beware of camera rotation!
Handwritten text will not work.
Text on top of unclean background (images or borders/lines in excel sheet) will not work.
PDF source is not supported.
OCR for Gujarati, Persian and Punjabi is experimental and the result is very bad. You have been warned.

**Please read the in-app Help section for tips to improve OCR accuracy before leaving a bad review :) **

= Key Points =
Offline OCR
Built-in image enhancement tools
Simple to use but feature rich
Huge language support

= Pro Features =
Remove ads - Permanently removes all advertisements.
Image dewarp - Fix text lines that are wavy/bent due to curved book pages.
Save to sdcard & image share - Image/text can be saved to sdcard. Also allows sharing of enhanced image.
OCR modes - Advance OCR modes, character white/blacklist, and disable dictionary.
Paragraph scanning mode - Allows you to remove unwanted line breaks in paragraphs.
Create PDF - Creates PDF files where text can be selected and copy paste.
Text to speech - Text to speech language support. Also allows automatic text reading upon OCR.
Multi-language OCR - Perform OCR with multiple languages.
Full screen editing - Allows one to hide the image during text editing.

= Supports more than 60 languages =
Afrikaans, Albanian, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Frankish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian (Old), Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Middle English, Middle French, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish (old), Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Ratings and reviews

There's a major problem with the latest update (v3.1.1 PRO) and suggest a Hot Fix. It's fails to save text and pictures, and I think it's because the app file storage access permissions aren't set up corectly on devices running Android 14. I tried contacting the developer twice, but the emails bounced back because the mailbox was full. These issues are quite annoying, as one would expect a fully functional purchased app.

This OCR app is well above average. Dev is responsive. I usually tune my images up in a photo editor before using this app, although this app has some good tools as well. Minor editing of the OCR'd text is usually needed, but is impressively accurate (english), especially since processing is local (& secure). I am very satisfied.

I use this to convert screenshots of ebook pages or photos of text into searchable text. Given a decent photograph of text, it's extraordinarily accurate, often achieving one hundred percent accuracy.

What's new

Updated app to support the latest Android version