Scan paper documents, labels, signs with the camera and recognize text. Listen using built-in text-to-speech. Save and export. Unlimited use: no subscriptions or additional charges.
State-of-the-art A.I. for OCR and text recognition: Fast and accurate, even in poor lighting conditions. Works entirely on device: No need for internet and your data stays private.
Recognizes text in the following languages: Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
ScanTone, a sound that represents the amount of recognizable text in the camera's field of view in real time. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze the live feed from the camera for text, angle, rotation, and document edges.
Exports scans as plain text or accessible PDF with embedded text. Works with Voice Dream Reader, our full-featured text-to-speech reader. Sends scanned documents directly to Reader.
Detailed Feature List
Scanning
- ScanTone
- Live edges/crop detection
- Flashlight
- Batch mode for scanning multiple pages quickly
- Intelligent auto capture
Image
- Automatic edge detection for stretching and cropping
- Manually cropping
- Automatic orientation detection and rotation
- Manual image rotation
- Automatic image enhancement
OCR
- Fast: about a second on the latest iPhone
- Offline: does not require Internet connection
- Private: image and text stay on device
- Automatic language detection
- Option to see image or recognized text
Text To Speech
- Choose from 61 voices
- Premium voices in Voice Dream Reader available
- Change speech rate
- Option to start reading as soon as OCR is complete
- Spoken word is highlighted in the text or the image
- Rewind and fast forward by text section (VoiceOver users only)
- Double tap on text to start reading from there
Import and Export
- Load from Photo Library
- Share extension for sending images to Scanner from another app
- Export plain text
- Export PDF with text layer under the image so that it's accessible, searchable and selectable
- Export to Voice Dream Reader
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User Rating
4.24 out of 5
58 ratings
in Canada
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Reviews
Amazing features for good price but crashes if you scan many pages.
It’s a good scanner at an excellent price for these features compared to other apps, but the reason for three stars only is that if you scan a lot of pages the app crashes and I’ve lost a substantial amount of my work and time because of this having to restart again. So if you use this app, scan slowly, and don’t export the images to pdf if there are a lot of pages. I’m sad to have lost my time and work by crashes.
10/10
This app is absolutely amazing. The voices sound great, it easy to navigate between chapters, and all around intuitive to use. Love that it’s a one time purchase instead of a subscription. It is really helpful for my ADHD. Thank you.
Immediately relieved me a frustration by reading the visual and put on my TV
This app saved the day! Basically, I was trying to sign into YouTube on my Amazon fire stick. The built-in software for YouTube does not use voice view from Amazon. So, it read me the code that I have to put into the website without reading any punctuation! I attempted to use another scanning app with no success. I used this voice dream scan program and it got the code I needed correctly thank goodness. Now I can watch my YouTube videos and music without stupid commercials! Thank you everybody peace out and have a father Tabula‘s day!
App Needs more work
Scanning app is nice but very finicky when scanning multiple pages. App will crash if you scan too fast and will loose a good portion of what you have scanned and have to start over.
Voice stream scanner
An outstanding app in every way! Congratulations to the developers!
This accessibility app has helped pave my way back to the world of literature!
I downloaded this for $8 and some odd change and it just shuts off with no explanation. Again and again.
Through my frustration, I chose to react poorly by assigning it with just a single star, and a disparaging review.
After coming back to this a day later, I loaded it onto my iPhone and second iPad. It worked beautifully!
Since this time, I’ve discovered that it wasn’t the app that was crashing. I suspect it was the case that partially obscured the flash component of the iPad.
One of my comments was that if it sounds too good to be true… It probably isn’t. My perspective has now changed. This is the first time for me when reading that something sounds too good to be true, it is!
I sheepishly apologize to the developers of this app. 🥺
This accessibility app has helped pave my way back to the world of literature!
Again, please except my humble apology. Thank you!
Robert
Scanned a bound book
I love my books, and hate to have to chop these to feed into the Scan Snap scanner. Today I just finished scanning a 303 page book that arrived from overseas. I built a platform to rest my iPad on, and under neath was where I put the book. I built a 90 degree acrylic (two pieces of acrylic glued together) device so I could place it between pages and this would hold the pages flat. I then used black tape to clearly outline the edges. This setup took 65% of the total time (next book will use this same acrylic device). I watched videos while doing the scan
After I finished, I outputted to voice dream reader, and it worked perfectly.
Simply the best
I have tried other scanning apps and this one is by far the best.
Amazing little app
Very impressive OCR.
I LOVE THIS APP! But!!
Don't get me wrong, I love every thing about this app. Well almost everything! For those of you that have worked with Kurzweil, this app has enormous potential. But it needs a little tweaking. This app works wonderfully well when you scan a word document, but when your scanning documents or books that have charts or text in its own boxes, it does not read each section in order. However, I still love this app & am waiting patiently for the updates.