Scan and Edit Your Document Using Your Smartphone!
What would you do, however, if you need something scanned or edited, yet a dedicated scanner ion't nearby? There should be a solution and there will be no regrets. Well, using your smartphone instead is an option
Sometimes in particular circumstances you have to deal with a problem immediately or lose an opportunity, which may affect your whole life and you regret it so much. The circumstance, mentioned in the first paragraph is one of them.
So if you were in this situation, you wished that there were portable scanners. You will find portable scanners that you can carry in your pocket. Actually, they are not literally scanners but they can do the same thing. These are nothing but your smartphone.
Since the introduction of smartphones, they have been a great help to people.
In modern life, almost everyone has cellophane and a lot of people use Android smartphones. There are many Android Apps that come in handy in different situations.
You can extract texts from photos taken by your phone's camera or existing images in your device's gallery. You just need to follow some easy steps using some applications that are known as OCR alps.
OCR (Optical character recognition) is a method of extracting texts from image and turning them into an editable document. After scanning a page ,it is stored as a bit-mapped file in TIF format. We read the text when displayed on the screen. But for the device, it is just a series of black and white dots, which the device fail to recognize any text on the image. This is what OCR does. OCR looks at each line of the image and identify if the black and white dots represent a particular alphabet or number. OCR was developed originally to assist sight-impaired individuals gain access to printed information.
However, OCR alps are very useful for extracting text from image. You can edit your documents after the text is extracted from the image. Some of the OCR app are :
Android OCR Alps
Goggle Docs
Goggle dominates Android market, no different when it comes to OCR Apps. Goggle Docs comes with the OCR feature and works well. It is very easy to converting scanned document into text document. There is not much to deal with the output, than saving it within the app. If you don’t mind copy-pasting the converted document, this is the best OCR apt you can get it for free.
Goggle Goggles :
Goggle Goggles is another Goggle apt which dominates the Android market and works as an OCR apt. Take a picture or any image and Goggle Goggles does a fair job of turning it into an editable text. The best part is you can paste the text you copy to anywhere on your phone – be it on Gmail, SMS or notes. More interesting, you can use Goggles to scan business cards and it save the details into your contacts. Goggles comes with Goggle translator which helps you translate the text into a ton of different languages.
OCR Test :
OCR Test is free App to download and use. The accuracy of its OCR is not that very great, similar to that of Goggles. One good feature when compared to Goggles. OCR Test comes with continuous preview, which shows a real-time display of what the App recognize from the live image.
IPHONE OCR APPS
Image To Text OCR:
Image-to-Text allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images and share it through Email or Evernote. What you are required to do is take a picture of the document using your camera and email the image to yourself. You will receive the image along with the text file containing the editable text extracted from the image. It works great with English language
Perfect OCR – Document scanner with high quality OCR:
Perfect OCR is not a free App. It costs $3.99 to converts the images to text. It stores history of the text generated text. You can crop, rotate and recolor a taken image. But OCR functionality is pretty slow as it requires capturing three images of the text.
Prizmo:
Prizmo is the most sophisticated OCR apt with a user free interface. But then it costs $9.99, which is not that cheap by any standards. It is really professional and easy to use. Once the results are generated, you can share vis Dropbox, Evernote and others
What would you do, however, if you need something scanned or edited, yet a dedicated scanner ion't nearby? There should be a solution and there will be no regrets. Well, using your smartphone instead is an option
Sometimes in particular circumstances you have to deal with a problem immediately or lose an opportunity, which may affect your whole life and you regret it so much. The circumstance, mentioned in the first paragraph is one of them.
So if you were in this situation, you wished that there were portable scanners. You will find portable scanners that you can carry in your pocket. Actually, they are not literally scanners but they can do the same thing. These are nothing but your smartphone.
Since the introduction of smartphones, they have been a great help to people.
In modern life, almost everyone has cellophane and a lot of people use Android smartphones. There are many Android Apps that come in handy in different situations.
You can extract texts from photos taken by your phone's camera or existing images in your device's gallery. You just need to follow some easy steps using some applications that are known as OCR alps.
OCR (Optical character recognition) is a method of extracting texts from image and turning them into an editable document. After scanning a page ,it is stored as a bit-mapped file in TIF format. We read the text when displayed on the screen. But for the device, it is just a series of black and white dots, which the device fail to recognize any text on the image. This is what OCR does. OCR looks at each line of the image and identify if the black and white dots represent a particular alphabet or number. OCR was developed originally to assist sight-impaired individuals gain access to printed information.
However, OCR alps are very useful for extracting text from image. You can edit your documents after the text is extracted from the image. Some of the OCR app are :
Android OCR Alps
Goggle Docs
Goggle dominates Android market, no different when it comes to OCR Apps. Goggle Docs comes with the OCR feature and works well. It is very easy to converting scanned document into text document. There is not much to deal with the output, than saving it within the app. If you don’t mind copy-pasting the converted document, this is the best OCR apt you can get it for free.
Goggle Goggles :
Goggle Goggles is another Goggle apt which dominates the Android market and works as an OCR apt. Take a picture or any image and Goggle Goggles does a fair job of turning it into an editable text. The best part is you can paste the text you copy to anywhere on your phone – be it on Gmail, SMS or notes. More interesting, you can use Goggles to scan business cards and it save the details into your contacts. Goggles comes with Goggle translator which helps you translate the text into a ton of different languages.
OCR Test :
OCR Test is free App to download and use. The accuracy of its OCR is not that very great, similar to that of Goggles. One good feature when compared to Goggles. OCR Test comes with continuous preview, which shows a real-time display of what the App recognize from the live image.
IPHONE OCR APPS
Image To Text OCR:
Image-to-Text allows you to extract editable ASCII text from images and share it through Email or Evernote. What you are required to do is take a picture of the document using your camera and email the image to yourself. You will receive the image along with the text file containing the editable text extracted from the image. It works great with English language
Perfect OCR – Document scanner with high quality OCR:
Perfect OCR is not a free App. It costs $3.99 to converts the images to text. It stores history of the text generated text. You can crop, rotate and recolor a taken image. But OCR functionality is pretty slow as it requires capturing three images of the text.
Prizmo:
Prizmo is the most sophisticated OCR apt with a user free interface. But then it costs $9.99, which is not that cheap by any standards. It is really professional and easy to use. Once the results are generated, you can share vis Dropbox, Evernote and others
