Pixter Scanner OCR Document App Reviews

Read an entire paragraph in french, Made 1 mistake, did not forget the accents, Wow! Most amazing thing about this is the fact that the text on the picture was very tiny, and that the lighting was bad on the picture. The app got through it like if it was nothing. This is going to get big and stay big for students. You can literally take books on your mobile device and read them like if it was an ebook, compared to reading it on a picture you took. If you read this after the AppGratis offer, I really recommend that you buy it, its worth it if you are going to use it a lot.

Froze in the tutorial !!!

This a great app for recognizing and translating text. The interface is clean and options intuitive.

very good，but a bit inaccurate.

ocr is a powerful tool, and having it available, conveniently AND cheaply, in my pocket, is amazing. it isnt perfect (just getting an in-focus, reasonably well-lit image isnt as easy as dropping a sheet of paper onto a flatbed scanner), but it works reasonably well. (ocr is never 100%, but this seems to work as well as most.) the language support is great, and i just wish they would support a few more (non-latin) languages.

This app is very good. I love it. Thankyou.

It really does work good but the icon needs to be fixed! The "T" and corner pieces are much to thin make them the size of Apples apps like the AppStore and it will look so much better.

Freezes on the tutorial on the ipad, wasted $2 for nothing

So far the best one I found.

The app does not support Korean or 70 différent languages as advertise. Also it frozes on first trial with French or English. Note = zero + zero

I have used the same scan with a few different apps and this one nailed it. There are quite a few errors, but it is tolerable. I took a picture of a paperback, so the lines of text are not completely straight, which I imagine would make it more difficult for the apps to decipher. I would recommend this app. Based on the other reviews and my limited experience with it, it looks like it will deliver the majority of what you are looking for in an OCR app.

Bought this app for my ipad. Very user Unfriendly!!!!!! Could get it to scan a simple letter!! Dont touch this!!! Just lost $3.00 I have Turboscan 2.6.2 from Pikscan on my iphone 4S and it works much better then this app.

very good app, just doing well what it is supposed to.

I use Pixter together with Faster Scan, take half page a time (landscape picture rotating in Faster scan) as words too small, tried English and other language, quite satisfied for the OCR results. I would recommend it.

doesnt support arabic as it says. please refund

Was set to French output (which was okay I guess) which I changed to English but it’s not able to OCR a simple paragraph in Helvetica 12 pt. taken from my camera (iPhone 6 Plus) with flash enabled…that is when it would let me take a photo. It wouldn’t half the time.

This thing is incapable of OCR and could not even complete OCR scan of its own sample document! Like other reviewer, I found default setting to be “French” and changed this, but to no avail. This application does NOT work as represented and buyers should move on to something else! For another similar app, Apple gave immediate refund. For this one, I have to wait several days! Completely unfair given vendor’s misrepresentation about the product. Buyer beware!

The perfect tool for someone in my position: researching in old books, with a need to frequently (and accurately) copy and format substantial passages into my notes. Its become an indispensable part of my everyday workflow, and helps me to get away from my desk and out into the world. I can now conveniently work wherever I can carry a book and my iPod.

This app is great and performs as advertised. The important thing people have to understand is the result is entirely dependent on the quality of the photograph!!!! You have to use a steady hand and have enough light to capture a readable image. Garbage in, garbage out as they say. The one drawback is the lack of an image rotate option, as the OCR algorithm seems to produce better results on upright text.

Thanks for this. I take pictures of text I see in facebook, and then your app lets me convert it to text and send it by email. I email it sometimes directly to one of my blogs. Facebook does not let you copy text. This way, anything that you can see on the ipad or iphone can be converted first to an image (press both ipad buttons at once) and then with this app, get the photo from your photos and do an ocr scan on it. Great results. It is true that the example photo in the app does not scan correctly, so ignor this issue and move on folks.