Text Fairy (OCR Text Scanner)

Amazing. This is the first free app I can honestly say I would be happy to pay for. While the app store is awash with OCR apps that scan to PDF very few produce text files and even less can carry out character recognition close to this app. My only concern is with some of the app permissions requested such as Full Network Access. Even if OCR was performed remotely I don't see why FNA is required. Bottom line? The best of the best!

It's not at all complicated to use but still gets the job done. Scanning speed is decent, but remember that the clearer the image, the better the results and speed. It will show the whole process of scanning as well, which​ in itself is quite satisfying. It even provides feedback on your image, such as whether it's clear enough or light enough etc. It also told me I was getting better at using the app, which was what I was feeling at the exact same time due to a good scan, which made me feel nice.

This app is great! Take a photo of text from a text book and it converts it to a text file. You can edit the text in case it doesn't translate perfectly. Sometimes it messes up at the edge of the page near the spine. It also reads the text for you if you don't want to read it yourself. Can share it to drop box or save as a PDF. Awesome!

I am using it both as a general OCR tool, and also to capture all the business cards of the medicos we're dealing with as my wife goes through major surgery and recovery. I copy the text & pasting into a master document (rather than 'contacts' I will not need in a few months). Works great!

Gets the job done. However takes way too long page by page and it does not upload everything. It will cut off half the text so make sure to go back and read what you have and what you produced. I had a problem with books that are not in paragraph form but are in sections with pictures and bubbles with text in it because you cannot block those out but you can with a piece of paper when you are going to take a picture. If there is an image next to what you are takin a picture of it makes words and weird text out of the photograph image of let's say a family and spits out random letters. I would love this app if it was more accurate and was able to block out unessicary text.

Absolutely love this I have narcolepsy and reading can trigger me to fall asleep as well as dyslexia. One of my features with screenshots is that it will take a very long photograph going to the next page and taking the picture which makes a very narrow long picture. It has said that it may not be able to read the screen shot because at first it was seeing that it was very long and narrow when I moved the lines along the very long text of the screenshot which I had done the reviews on this app by doing a screenshot of everybody's comment it then scanned everything and read it completely perfect with my disabilities I comprehend better by hearing I can already see how this is going to benefit my health much much better. Even in apps where you want to share them they send a internet link which none of my readers should read before however I have a button on the phone that floats and in the multiple choices one of them is a screenshot this screenshot feature will continually take the picture until it reaches the bottom of the article. This is why the picture itself is very long and narrow I am on Cloud 9 with this application I highly recommend it and will recommend it to my doctor that deals with my narcolepsy and on my narcolepsy web group❤ this is not just a four or five star application it is a 100 star

Needs good light. Pages must be flat. (Take a steel L rule to the library?). Some obscure words not recognised. I don't know if other OCR apps have bigger dictionaries (very old words from Scots.. some manual work required). I will try under fluorescents... Led bulbs..

I'm thankful that I got this in an emergency and it helped me real good real fast. Even when the snapshot was taken in a room with only the natural light coming through the window, it's still did 99% accurate job. I used to get this level of accuracy only with an OCR scanning machine. Thanks again.

Just downloaded it today and have scanned a few pages. It works very well and converts to PDF nicely! Now I'm wondering what the catch is because it's free without ads. Four stars because I've had it for less than an hour and can't write a fully encompassing review.

I love this text fairy. Found the best app ever. It has made made my work time saving and easier. I was actually looking keenly for some app that converts a hard copy to a soft one and thanks to this ocr for making it done. In love with it.

What a brilliant app. Obviously it's not faultless so do continue to optimize it. But when you consider just how complex this task is then I'm really pleased with what this app can do. Made my life a lot easier when digitising some of my favourite recipe books. Thank you!

This is one of the best, and easiest to use OCRs I have ever tried. It is almost 100% accurate when the picture quality is decent-good. The only issue I have with it is that it can never read the smaller than or equal, and larger than or equal symbols (≤ and ≥), or dashes ( - ) between words and letters, like "30-50".

Best at all: pocket/no ads/only needed components/so much ways to work with extracted text/very good developed Thanks to you for this very exciting and very useable app :-) I'll write you if I found something to improve, fix or add to this app! PS: may I make a little donation? And how do you finance your work? Keep it up

Best ocr app I've ever seen after google ocr though google ocr work in online. All things of this app are good. But its time to use a server for better result. So that we can convert image in online as google ocr do. Please consider this on next update.

Sir, I loved it.. I always use this application for recognise text from images. But I want to do it in my local language Odia. Sir please add odia font in this application. I am so thankful to you. Thanks for giving me an awesome application..... Thank you again.

This is better than similar commercial apps. I just installed Textgrabber from Abbyy and immediately requested a refund when I compared the quality of its output which turned out to be inferior to Text Fairy's. This simply is the best app of its kind on Playstore.

UI could do with an overhaul + when converting I found it would not convert (&); but other than that, the app is awesome at text recognition. Thanks for great app

This is what i'm looking for, i need this to archive old books so i can keep it in PC as softcopy. From my experience this apps can recognise almost 90% of the text, all I do is just simple & minor correction. Really help me. Thank you very much :)

Wow... Wanted to get a note into Evernote as text instead of an image. This recognized all of the words perfectly and I was able to share it directly into Evernote. Thanks text fairy you're amazing!

I am using this app for a long time. This reduces the typing works for me. The college students are unaware of it. If they come to know that this will reduce their typing process, there will be lot of downloads for this app!

This a Wow image to text free app. Maybe there can be paid apps as good as this, I may not be able to say. But as for this, it's magical! Many thanks to the developers.

This is the best text conversion app I have ever used. especially with the recent update which allows you to share the content after copying much easier. text recognition has also improved significantly

I am sure and believe its the best software loved it. it really helped me do my work in two days which could take 7 days. thanks to the team of this app love you all guys.

Easy to use and quality of OCR seems pretty good. I like being able to export multiple pages of a book as a single document in Drive and the text to speech is very helpful. Thanks for making this available.

Hi Renard & The creative Team of Text Fairy ! I gave 5 Stars to your app...I would like to say that your app is fantabulous....but improvement is always the essential part of any App. Please try to make the best recognition of Urdu language...the app can't recognise Urdu very well. With best wishes.

Great tool. Excellent tool. Maker(s) of it deserve lots of appreciation. I tried it on my own handwriting in capital. It gave excellent results.

Does not handle tables or multicolumn layout. If you choose single column, it places all the info in the first collumn at the beginning of the document, then places all the info from the second column, etc. If you choose more than one column, if a column has no entry on any line, it treats that as the end of a column. eg if you have a 4-column document, you end up with 12 or fifteen or whatever bits of information. Reasonably accurate for general text.

I can't tell you how much time this saves me. I'm a writer and often screenshot reference materials that are half a world away. OCR instead of note-taking is the way to go, and this app is better than the best PC software I've found. THANK YOU!

since the last update, the app can no longer read texts properly. it messes up a lot in long photos. even in the shorter ones. I think I'll revert back to the older version. it's a lot better than this version..

Never used anything like this. I'm very impressed with how the photo transfers it into a document, allowing me to speed read it through Spritz. AWESOME!!! SAVES A WHOLE LOT OF TIME when it comes to studying.

This app is 90%of what I need. I love that it can read the text found in images back to me. Now if only it could read back multiple images one after another without me having to click play each time.

This is truly a gem !!! This app even works offline. The best thing I love about this app is its text straightening feature. That is simply superb. It is really a must download app.

I am an Advocate. This app is so good as it allows me to convert all pdf to word and save me time to type big contents. Thank you for bringing such a good and useful app.

read the tips. brief and tell u what wont work (blurry photo, etc). but im fine with this app and will keep it on my phone.

I am working on a project to republish old public domain pirate books. The app helped my fastly scanning and editing the file. Congratulations for giving such a useful app absolutely free.

I have went through tons and tons of OCR apps, and every single one of them are either useless, or are demanding your money. This is the only app I have seen that gives it's best and asks for the least, so I would sincerely like to thank you for bringing such a wonderful app into our world.

Very good ad-free app. I especially appreciate the option to save as plain text and email the results - that allows me to edit and combine output into 1 file. Weakness: inserts line breaks that don't exist in the source.

Works only for English and plain proper writen digital text., Hand writing ends up in jibberish crap in 99% wrong letters, wrong signs and stuff.. Complete disaster., Do NOT USE for handwritten stuff., It will fail BIG time

Have to say that this app is a great development. It's useful to prepare documents without much effort. This opens an era where our fingers will escape from keyboard taps.

Great with text. Would love for someone to come up with a great handwriting-to-digital app. Us teachers who still need to collect pencil to paper work would be grateful.