Pixter Scanner OCR Document

Purchased this as part of a bundle of their productivity group of apps. Originally Pixter scanned and OCR’d just fine. NOW you need to buy required the “PRO” version to OCR a document. What a rip off!!!!! DO NOT buy this scam!!!

This app is literally a life saver. Discovering that I can take pictures and have things typed for me... unbelievable. Thank you!!!

De loin la pire mise à jour d'application, toutes catégories confondues, depuis que j'ai commencé à utiliser des applications en 2008. Plus rien n'est rapide, tout est lourd, et l'app s'est elle-même ajoutée 20 images "exemples" pour me démontrer combien elle est bonne... mais elle est mauvaise!!! J'avais donné 5 étoiles à l'ancienne version, j'en enlève 4 aujourd'hui.

I have been using Pixter for about 1&1/2 years now; it was the best OC reader that I could find for iOS, although it can be a bit finicky. The quality of the output is a function of the picture quality of the document being read. I most often use it for importing recipes from magazines into the AnyList app, and typically have to cut or crop the input photographed document into bite-sized pieces, so that Pixter can turn into ASCII characters. It has trouble if the text in the photos changes in font size, colour, or background, or is angled; I try to use Microsoft Lens to take & prepare the photo for reading, but it still usually takes, perhaps 4 to 6 pictures to copy approximately 200-300 words of a recipe. It is not a desktop OCR suite, but it will do the job, if you coddle it a bit.

will not recognize german, useless, do not buy

OCR scan is not accurate at all.

Being forced to watch ads after paying for an app is inexcusable!

Description suggested the app can do hand writing OCR. Even the neatest handwriting only yielded about 10% recognition. Also as noted in other review, even the included sample of printed text didn't work properly!

Does a very poor job of conversion. Can not convert the simplest of clearly written enlarged text. Garbage X 2

I've had this app since it was first available though I never wrote a review. It has always worked very well for me, I suspect that those who claim it doesn't work aren't taking very clear and steady pictures under good lighting. If you ensure that there are no shadows on the page and try to keep creases in the paper (on a sheet that may have been folded) it works almost perfectly. I also like that the original photo is saved along with the "read" text so that you can verify the accuracy (words are obvious, because you can easily correct any typo, but do make sure to check numbers, not that they have any problem being "read" compared to letters/words, but an error in say, a phone number wouldn't likely stand out to you) Overall though, this app does what is advertised properly and I have never seen another app that does something like this, perhaps there are others but I'm sure this was the first and I haven't had the need to look for another.