SmartOCR Text Reader

Usage instructions are missing in the app and the Developer provided link takes one to a blogspot that is in some variation of Chinese — not English — and translator widgets don’t provide a clear translation. How are English speakers supposed to get help understanding how2use this app?? ** Developers, please provide instructions and let me know — then I might be able to actually review this app. ** ALSO, the text from image grabber is riddled with mistakes that make it very awkward to, for example, accurately extract a lengthy website address from a screenshot of the website address —might as well just use pen and paper… FAIL - PLEASE FIX ❗️❗️❗️

First I’m not sure how it opens all your photos the first time when you did not give the app permission to view your photos the first time you ever use the app.. but besides that. Basics, in edit of either type of upload/photo, there is no undo button/option. Also, basic like cropping and moving dimensions doesn’t work. It gives an overlay over a blank screen, but if you move it around and return to the photo, you see it must’ve moved around according to this overlay w corner points. Anyway lots of basic problems and I guess I need to change my iCloud account passwords now.

Tried it on picture of text and this app did OCR very good.

A bit hard to navigate and won’t save the picture of scanned documents along with the text it saves. There are likely better options; don’t waste your time with this one.

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Good quality and fast OCR. Just make sure to use regular paragraphed text, no handwriting or spreadsheets.

I chose a screenshot of English text from a news website to test the OCR. Even after cropping the image to one paragraph with a large and clear font, it mixed up simple words and entire lines of text. Not recommended.

Yes the app hangs when you start the scan or 3X. It doesn't do anything right now.

When scanning, the app crashes.

Since I have upgraded to iOS 9, this app doesn't work very well. The app keeps aborting when it tries to use the camera to scan. It will have five stars from me if the makers updated the app to be compatible with iOS 9.