Smart Scanner app for iPhone and iPad
4.5 (
7595 ratings )
Business
Utilities
Developer:
SHAPE GmbH
1.99 USD
Current version:
1.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 30 Apr 2010
App size: 11.33 Mb
48h sale! Just take a photo of a text with phone number, e-mail address or URL and immediately call, write e-mail or open URL in Safari. Or just scan and OCR any text.
NOTE: Works best with printed texts. Designed to run on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 with iOS 4.0 or later.
From the developer of IM+, Business Card Reader, and Barcode Reader, Smart Scanner turns the iPhone into really smart text capturing device.
Smart Scanner is much more than just a scanner app, it increases iPhone owners’ productivity by saving time on entering key information such as phone numbers, email addresses or ULRs. Utilizing industry best mobile OCR engine from ABBYY, Smart Scanner easily snaps and recognizes large texts such as magazine articles and book pages.
Features include:
- Realtime text detection and highlighting. Text recognition in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish languages.
- One-touch instant recognition of phone numbers, email addresses, web addresses. Locate the text in the viewfinder, and then tap to call, tap to send an email or tap to open in Safari
- Selection and recognition of arbitrary text blocks
- Full-page recognition of large texts, like magazine and book pages
- Copy, email selected text
- Convenient "see-what-was-scanned" text editing
- Based on the industry best mobile OCR engine from ABBYY.
About SHAPE Services
SHAPE Services is probably the worlds most successful mobile app development company, maker of several bestsellers for iPhone and other smartphones.
SHAPE is the only company with apps reached the top rankings in four App Store categories: Social Networking, Business, Utilities and Productivity.
Visit www.shapeservices.com for more details.
See also IM+, Business Card Reader, Barcode Reader, RDM+, GPSed, VR+, Mobiscope, iDisplay
If you’re on Twitter, follow us with @SmartScanSHAPE!
Pros and cons of Smart Scanner app for iPhone and iPad
Smart Scanner app good for
OCRd pages of legal text well, about 95+ % accurate. Landscape and portrait orientation worked. Manual selection of single sentences is good. Worked best with well lit paper (no strong shadows). Scanned business cards with 100% accurate, and tap-to-call and email also good. Very good value for low price.
This app is so great I use it to capture notes from class and turn them into a document. It works perfect every time I capture text on paper.
It does the job and it does it well. Granted it could use some interface and UI improvements but thats not why I bought this app! I bought it for what it can do, and boy does it get it right!
Needs: Portrait Scanning (No doubt)
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Recognition of text format as it appears on the page. (Line Breaks for example)
Its an best intelligent software, which can provide great convenience for our work. I really like to use it when I extract information in the library!
This is the 8th one I have tried and, frankly, the other scan apps should be embarassed. Works PERFECTLY on my 3GS. Apple should do itself a favor and just offer this app as they all dont deserve to be in the same room with this one. Buy it! Its a winner!
Well, Ive read the reviews for this app and wasnt sure what to think. I could end up losing $2 on an app and used that instead for a better OCR app. Bottom line? It works fairly well, but...it isnt perfect.
Ive tried this app out on my new iPhone4 and with it, it worked reasonable well but had its quirks.
The good:
1) fairly decent (but not perfect) at converting data to text or using it to access the phone or web
2) has a great picture-to-text converter
3) simple to use
4) seeing it work in real time thru the camera is VERY COOL! :)
The bad:
1) it isnt perfect, my first impressions say that its 80% accurate. Update: more like 70%, but I still like it
2) you have to hold the camera VERY still in order to achieve good results
3) the surface from which it reads data from has to be fairly flat
4) it doesnt seem to work at all in landscape mode! Update: it does, I just needed to be more deliberate with the iPhone
5) I WISH it had a zoom feature for the camera (2x,4x,8x,etc)
6) I WISH it had a camera stabilizer
Simply put, I wish it was a lot more accurate more often - its not perfect BUT...I still like the app and plan on using more often. Im happy with it for now.. :)
Update:
1) needs to have an option for LED (iphone 4)light when needed
2) needs to have the option to take a picture within this app and then immediately after process it to text. so if Im unsuccessful capturing data live, I can at least snap a picture and process it within this app. This feature works fairly well in this app
Some bad moments
as nice and useful your business card reader works, I thought this app could be so powerful too.
Unfortunately it doesnt. The recognition is very bad. Not even found one correct word in the txt i tried. Probably works fine in US?
Tried with iP 4 iOS 4.0
Exactly what I was looking for - except for the fact that it works only 1 time out of 10 maybe.
I would demand a refund if i didnt believe it was imposible. Apple, please add a "i want a refund button" for apps. When more than 50% click it - do something! Ive been disappointed so many times.
Not even an inch close behind Docscanner.It was a misguided decision to purchase this app. I dont understand why all others iPhone scanning apps got the balls to giveaway a free lite version or demo for evaluation .But this one only give you the option to buy it.Where Is the confidence of the developers.
Im sick with myself for throwing away $2 on this app. The OCR is absolutely garbage. Just crap. Ive tried it on a variety of fonts, papers, surfaces; with different types and amounts of lighting. It hasnt gotten two words in a row yet. It all just comes out as illegible sequences of obscure punctuation marks and random letters.
Skip the app and save your twoonie for a coffee.
It regularly miss the fist few lines in the scan. It only works partially with printed text.
Awful scanner. Taking pic and do OCR results in garbage. Worst app around. However its not the OCR engine because when I use pics taken from other app the OCR is fine. Dont buy this. Hey Shapeservices get back into shape.
