Text Detective
Free AppAbout Text Detective
Text Detective is a fully accessible app that reads text from the camera in your phone or tablet within seconds. Point the camera and sort through mail, read menus, cards, product packages, medication labels, and all kinds of other print around you. WE REALLY CARE WHAT YOU THINK: Please don't hesitate to contact us via Twitter, Facebook, or email!
***** Great for reading text on the fly!
The text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even keeps the text in a history for future use.
Text Detective works best with the clean and crisp text you find in documents, and at a distance of about the length of a forearm. You can use it wherever you go - no need for network coverage – it even works on the plane.
The creation of this product was supported in part by SBIR grants from the National Institutes of Health (grants no. EY011821 and EY020707).
Text Detective by Blindsight is covered by U.S. Patent No. 7,817,855, and pending US and international patents.
***** Great for reading text on the fly!
The text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even keeps the text in a history for future use.
Text Detective works best with the clean and crisp text you find in documents, and at a distance of about the length of a forearm. You can use it wherever you go - no need for network coverage – it even works on the plane.
The creation of this product was supported in part by SBIR grants from the National Institutes of Health (grants no. EY011821 and EY020707).
Text Detective by Blindsight is covered by U.S. Patent No. 7,817,855, and pending US and international patents.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Version 1.2.1
- Changed behavior on "Skip intro" menu item
- Added better checking for camera flash
Version 1.2.0
- Significant improvements to text reading performance
- Added preview of captured frame while detecting text
Version 1.1.4
- NEON support detected at runtime
Version 1.1.3
- Better detection of German text
Version 1.1.2
- Added autofocus for some Samsung devices
Version 1.1.1
- Explicit library loading supports more devices
Version 1.2.1
- Changed behavior on "Skip intro" menu item
- Added better checking for camera flash
Version 1.2.0
- Significant improvements to text reading performance
- Added preview of captured frame while detecting text
Version 1.1.4
- NEON support detected at runtime
Version 1.1.3
- Better detection of German text
Version 1.1.2
- Added autofocus for some Samsung devices
Version 1.1.1
- Explicit library loading supports more devices
More downloads Text Detective reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads Text Detective reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update Text Detective was updated to version 1.2.1
More downloads Text Detective reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
What are users saying about Text Detective
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Whole reason i got it was for it to read my boring gas book to me, it doesnt read it at all
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This app is as light for
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I can read text semt to me easily
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Takes several tries to get a good picture that will convert to text. Read aloud function does not work.
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Not working on android lollipop touch HD. please fix this.
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No audio?
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CRASHES but otherwise excellent!
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Crashed after first use and it doesn't read out loud.
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Excellent
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Awasone plz keep upgraded
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Awesoooome
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Doesn't work at all...
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Am surprised on its work. Useful App.
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Work good on printed text. Hand written texts causes some problems but this is great if you want to quick copy a text document for editing or saving.
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I tried it out on different types of documents and books. I was surprised how well it worked and was able to pull the words from a kid's picture book with different fonts
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First of all, it doesn't work. I have a note 3 and every time I scan, it comes out all gibberish, EVERY TIME. Second, this app didn't take any consideration from people that are hard of seeing. Why would you make the app scan in lanscape only? When taking the picture, at least have it be able to zoom in and easy to navigate so we can actually see and read the text. It's nice that you try to make it READ, but it's not working. Besides, it's not an app for the totally blind because they wouldn't be able to take the picture in the first place. This app is for people that are having a hard time reading small text and it should at least let you zoom in a picture to see text. In fact, that's what I have been doing except it's difficult to take a picture, click on gallery and see text. I can always have auto preview on, but thought this app would make it easy. This is not the case, the app has terrible OCR. 3/19/14 So I update the software. It improved a little, but still a long way to go before being usable.
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I discovered the app through app store, it works really well, then I installed it on android, really poor!!
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Extremely easy to use, results no worse than most other mobile OCR apps. Looking forward to seeing this continue to be developed.
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Poor results. No flash lighgt option. A lot of tweaking needed
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As others have said, the read aloud function doesn't work. I'm sorry but that's pretty huge. You can't just gloss over that "small fact". But also, the reading is not good at all. I tried it with several documents in various fonts at various distances and the results are far from perfect--at worst it's unreadable; at best, typos galore. Even with the simplest font--and a two sentence paragraph--it still barely reads the text properly. But mostly, they shouldn't say this reads the text aloud if it doesn't.