TextGrabber scan and translate

Name: TextGrabber scan and translate
Rating: 4.54025 (5503 reviews)

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TextGrabber scan and translate

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ABBYY USA Software House Inc

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User Reviews for TextGrabber scan and translate

Finally

So many scanner apps promise test digitalization or OCR, yet when it comes to it, a simple extracting of a telephone number from the bank transaction (charge description) becomes more work and steps than one would care to perform or remember. This app takes care of that and even remembers the results, without the need to bother with saving files. Ability to specify this app as a target for sharing in the helper menu is a key feature, not to minimize how well the app is made to handle all various OCR situations and text translation to/from 100 languages, even language detection, which is major, when you really need it, like to translate a message in a global chat. Best app.

@srdvx, Oct 08, 2018

Works very well!

I’ve used this app for a long while and I’ve been quiet about it, because it WORKS! Even when I give it a grainy pic. Recently took the iOS13 upgrade and was kindly asked to rate it. Sorry for waiting so long but rest assured I have recommended the app to many of my colleagues and friends over the years, primarily in the technical field. Hopefully they will add to the accolades and review it ALLSTARS as well. Keep up the good works. Btw: When a file export or save fails in other apps. I say “screw it” I got TextGrabber and they get the NOStars.

BestAppsUser, Sep 28, 2019

Great Text Recognition app

If you want a great application to capture text, whether it’s from a book, a document, or an article in a magazine, etc. this is the go-to app I would recommend. It’s not perfect - some text is incorrectly recognized, however, that is usually the fault of the lighting of the document being scanned. If you evenly light the image that you’re scanning before doing a scan you’ll have great results, although a couple of words may be incorrectly recognized. Minor effort is required to edit them before saving the documents or emailing them.My only gripe is that when combining multiple scanned pages, they are combined in a non-intuitive order. It would be nice if you could somehow number each page that was scanned in the order that you want them combined. Maybe this could be fixed in a future release!

cb4ujudge, Oct 07, 2019

Great + one suggestion

Very handy. Text recognition is good/excellent My suggestion: It doesn't correct parallax of a scanned page. If you take the picture of a book there will be a distortion due to the page curve. It seems this causes issues with the OCR. Since we know that a lign should be straight, the software should be able to correct the parallax and correct distortion at the beginning and end of the lines. This, I assume, would improve the OCR of the scanned page. Anyway, great app

D_or 2000, Aug 20, 2018

One of ABBY’s best products

While I have had my gripes about ABBYY’s price and what I believe is a clear loss in the quality of the apps (ie it’s still hard to find better desktop software!), I nonetheless have to say this app is excellent. I am a PhD candidate in the humanities, and had to pass four research languages in order to complete the program. That meant I had to learn to translate quickly, and recognize common phrases in each language. If one is looking for the parsing or definition of a word then a lexicon is best, but if one needs to actually translate and work through sentence structure, then this is one of the most helpful apps I’ve found. I continue to use it for quick translation or to check my own rendering.*i do echo previous comments regarding whether the app utilizes the hardware of the latest iPhone effectively (it doesn’t); the iPhones have the best cameras on the market, and yet the ABBYY apps seem to struggle to take decent pictures. Sadly, it’s often easier and more accurate to take a picture with the native camera app and then import into the suite of ABBYY apps. (I have received multiple responses to this issue telling me I’m doing it wrong, but I have an actual lighting setup and a device that holds the phone over the page...I’m sure I will get corrected again 🙄 but there is some difference - that said ABBYY is still the best available).

dbintime, Dec 09, 2017

Great app, but recently…

Love this app. But there are a couple of things…1. About two weeks ago, the feature of scanning an image directly from Photo quit working. Now I must go to the app first, get rid of the startup screen which informs me that I can go to Photo and share, and pull the image into the app that way.2. Would be nice to have Spanish from Latin America language, not just Spanish from Spain.

Guate Red Raider, Nov 08, 2021

So far so good

I’m testing the app and it’s pretty accurate for recognizing English, which I really need it at this moment. However, there are a few things that doesn’t accurately. First, the app couldn’t recognize the words lie on the distortion of the photo during the photo taking process. Second, online translation into Vietnamse which has 20% vocabulary that could not be translated, and the translation is pretty wild (not smooth translation). Please take a look into those points. But in general, I am much appreciated how it works right now.

MhoneyJ, Dec 16, 2019

Needs work and improvements

Such high ratings for an app that constantly either not doing what it’s suppose to. OCR feature need work more text recognition...I could really do without all those symbol @&$”#%*€£¥> when it’s done scanning. It is annoying, very annoying. The paid finish product is very disappointing. Also, I’d like the developer to include Lao and Thai language in the translation feature. If I had known that Thai and Lao language translation was not included, I would not had bought it because it’s practically useless to me. How do I request for a refund in that regard?Edit: I just check again, there is no Thai or Lao language option for the translation feature? If there is it certainly isn’t on mine. How do I get it?

Sam Winston Hawk, Jan 19, 2018

Great Tool

I have been in Germany for the last few years. This application has been extremely useful. I have been able to translate everything written communication I get in German into English. The application is not perfect but it does the trick. I can read menu's, adds, shopping information, food labels and many other things on the spot. There is still room for improvement but I better deal with the 10% opportunity than with 100% ignorance. Bottom line, it is a great application worth having.

Statsoul, Nov 04, 2017

Blown away by the good reviews!

Horrible. Tried several trials with and without graphics in the background, and either didn't even detect the language, in which it didn't even try to attempt OCR. Or on the rare occasion would try but would totally foul up the sentences and words. Best stick to the free Google Translate app which works brilliant in comparison to this one with real time video translate, or pictures that have already been taken in your Photos app as well. It easily picks up Cyrillic and other languages. ABBY just gouges. Good luck to the developer. Perhaps use some of the better open source OCR software available and add useful features that other apps don't already have.

WildBillWillie, Sep 28, 2021

Description

ABBYY TextGrabber easily and quickly digitizes fragments of printed text, reads QR codes and turns the recognized result into actions: call, write, translate into 100+ languages online and into 10 languages offline, search in the Internet or on maps, create events on the calendar, edit, voice and share in any convenient way. When you point a camera at printed text, TextGrabber instantly captures information and recognizes it without connecting to the Internet. A unique real-time recognition mode extracts information in 60+ languages not only from documents but from any surfaces.

Winner of SUPERSTAR Award in the "Mobile Productivity App", "Mobile Image Capture App" and “Text Input” categories in Mobile Star Awards ------------------------ “TextGrabber is probably the best app which adds another function to your iPhone: a scanner”- The Irish Times “The results get delivered relatively fast, which is great. A must-have for students” - appadvice.com “The Best Image-to-Text App for iPhone” - lifehacker.com ------------------------ KEY FEATURES: • Real-Time Translation directly on the camera screen without taking photos into 100+ languages online (full-text translation) and 10 languages offline (word-by-word translation). • Innovative Real-Time Recognition mode based on ABBYY RTR SDK technology will digitize printed text directly on the camera screen without taking photographs. • Text recognition in 60+ languages, including Russian, English, German, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Chinese and Korean, without an Internet connection. • All links, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, postal addresses and dates after digitization become clickable: you can click on the link, phone, write an email, find the address on the maps or add an event to the calendar. • Siri shortcuts. To recognize the last photo with Siri create Siri Shortcut in iPhone settings. • QR code reader. • Powerful text-to-speech capability with the VoiceOver system feature. • Adjustable font sizes and audio prompts to assist visually impaired people: you can increase the font size and use sound prompts to interface elements. • Share the results to any app installed on the device via the system menu. • All extracted text is automatically backed up and can be easily found in the “History” folder ------------------------ The free version is ad-supported and provides 3 text recognition and translation. With ABBYY TextGrabber you can save and translate any printed text you need with a tap of your screen: • Texts from TV screen or smartphone • Receipts • Labels and counters • Travel documents • Magazine articles and book fragments • Manuals and instructions • Recipe ingredients, etc. ------------------------ OCR HINT: Please select the appropriate language (up to three at a time) before recognition ------------------------ abbyy.com/blog/mobile Facebook.com/ABBYYsoft Twitter @ABBYY_Software YouTube.com/ABBYYvideos ------------------------ Premium Account auto-renewable subscription allows using all functions of this app. Subscription length periods: 1 month and 1 year. The subscription is automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you choose to cancel the subscription at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. You can manage your subscription and switch off the auto-renewal by accessing your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription to that publication. Privacy: https://www.abbyy.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: http://www.textgrabber.pro/en/eula/ ----------------------- ABBYY TEXTGRABBER IS THE FASTEST WAY TO DIGITIZE, TRANSLATE AND ACTION ANY PRINTED INFORMATION! Please leave a review if you like ABBYY TextGrabber. Thank you!