OCR Instantly

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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

This is a good OCR app that'll decipher text from images from files or photos you can take in the app and let you copy/paste it into other apps. The accuracy is about 4/5, but of course, the better image you give it, the better the results. Sometimes I use it to get digital copy redemption codes, sometimes tracking numbers from receipts, etc. It also allows you to crop the image so you can get just the area you want read by the software and enhance it for potentially better results.

It won't let me download any supported languages. My phone is Android, Samsung Galaxy SIII. I had the same problem on another phone - I don't remember what type of phone it was except Android. I have been using Ocr Instantly for more than a year, but I haven't been able to find another that's nearly as good as OCR Instantly was.

It's a great OCR app, it's fast as well. But if the developer can add more features like: 1. Option to save on the app whatever you've worked on 2. Saving your work as a pdf file 3. Option to choose more than one image from the gallery 4. Ability for OCR to detect numbers and emails... And lots more other cool features, then this app can be rated as one of the best.

What's new

Updated app to support the latest Android version