If you have wanted to add OCR (optical character recognition) to your iPhone or iPad, well have we got a treat for you! This free app will let you take a picture of the text you want to OCR recognize, and then it will email you the OCRed text (along with a copy of the image), within mere moments! Examples and link to this free iPhone app are below!
Here is the image we took (from our computer screen):
And here is what was emailed to us:
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Pretty nifty, eh?
The app is called “Image to Text”, and it’s put out by the nice people at Ricoh, who make printers and such, so it makes sense that they know what they are doing.
Now, of course, the image is getting uploaded to their server, and emailed back to you OCRed, so you may want to be sure you don’t upload anything you wouldn’t want to be traced back to you, just in case.
You can get Image to Text for your iPhone or iPad at the below link or, if you have your iPhone or iPad handy, here’s the QR code:
Get Image To Text OCR at the app store
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