Scan & Scribe - Phone Docs OCR
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About Scan & Scribe - Phone Docs OCR
Using Scan & Scribe you can convert your Printed Docs and Handwritten Notes (Disjoint) Editable text that you can Copy, Save, Listen or Share it via Facebook, email (Outlook, Gmail etc.), WhatsApp, Dropbox, OneDrive etc. Its standout feature is its separate offline text recognition engines for scribbled notes and Printed contents.
It is simple to use:
1. Take a camera shot of handwritten notes or docs or load desired text image from gallery.
2. Crop and/or skew the intended text in the snapshot.
3. For text extraction from the cropped image, remember to select Handwritten option for hand written ones and Typed option for typed ones only.
4. Review the extracted text, make corrections if required. Incorrectly converted words will be highlighted.
5. You can now convert the text to speech for listening or save it for future use.
6. You can also share it via Facebook, email (Outlook, Gmail etc.), WhatsApp, Dropbox, OneDrive etc.
Remember:
1. If image’s text direction is not from left-to-right, rotate the image.
2. All other things should be cropped except the desired text to be converted.
3. In printed docs you can even have different fonts.
In case of snapshot from smart phone camera:
1. Take desired snapshot of i.e. paper, receipt etc. in bright environment.
2. Avoid shadow of the phone and/or any other object on the snapshot.
3. Turn on flash of smart phone camera if required.
At present, app does not properly support following things:
1. Pictures of hand writings on the notebooks having lined pages or ruled paper.
2. Pictures having multicolor background.
3. Images of curved pages.
4. Languages other than English.
Acknowledgement: This app is the result of Pakistan's National ICT R&D Funded project "Smart Intelligence - An OCR Engine for Android & iOS Smart Phones" executed by Abasyn University Islamabad's Renzym OCR Research Group.
It is simple to use:
1. Take a camera shot of handwritten notes or docs or load desired text image from gallery.
2. Crop and/or skew the intended text in the snapshot.
3. For text extraction from the cropped image, remember to select Handwritten option for hand written ones and Typed option for typed ones only.
4. Review the extracted text, make corrections if required. Incorrectly converted words will be highlighted.
5. You can now convert the text to speech for listening or save it for future use.
6. You can also share it via Facebook, email (Outlook, Gmail etc.), WhatsApp, Dropbox, OneDrive etc.
Remember:
1. If image’s text direction is not from left-to-right, rotate the image.
2. All other things should be cropped except the desired text to be converted.
3. In printed docs you can even have different fonts.
In case of snapshot from smart phone camera:
1. Take desired snapshot of i.e. paper, receipt etc. in bright environment.
2. Avoid shadow of the phone and/or any other object on the snapshot.
3. Turn on flash of smart phone camera if required.
At present, app does not properly support following things:
1. Pictures of hand writings on the notebooks having lined pages or ruled paper.
2. Pictures having multicolor background.
3. Images of curved pages.
4. Languages other than English.
Acknowledgement: This app is the result of Pakistan's National ICT R&D Funded project "Smart Intelligence - An OCR Engine for Android & iOS Smart Phones" executed by Abasyn University Islamabad's Renzym OCR Research Group.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Word by word processing added, Tips added, Better results for disjoint handwritten text and some bug fixes.
Word by word processing added, Tips added, Better results for disjoint handwritten text and some bug fixes.
Version update Scan & Scribe - Phone Docs OCR was updated to version 2.0
More downloads Scan & Scribe - Phone Docs OCR reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update Scan & Scribe - Phone Docs OCR was updated to version 1.2
More downloads Scan & Scribe - Phone Docs OCR reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
What are users saying about Scan & Scribe - Phone Docs OCR
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Caveat: my handwriting is not excellent, but it is legible. If you are like me, you get some laughable conversions from this program.
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well I dont agree with some of the reviews, I got satisfactory results, the only prob which arrised was with the joined text.
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so bad ... it is worse then google translates' scnar
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It just crashes every time it tries to OCR
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Ok. But it is not properly working for handwriting.
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I tried to convert English text, but it is scanning English into some other language
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Doesn't work for me
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It is a great app but it should provide an upadate for recognizing text on paper with lines
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This app is good.
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Not working
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Keeps crashing
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Just....NO
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it's time saving
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The best handwriting ocr I've seen. Not perfect it gets a lot of words wrong and is sensitive for position, color, type of writing but it worked fun keeping working on it guys
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Absolutely useless for handwriting recognition. Please stop pretending that is a feature!
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Excellent work
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Good job
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Great app!
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It didn't even get close to the handwriting in the image! Just gave me back lines of 'm's.
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Worst app ever
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Just got jiberish. Not even real words. Highly disappointed.
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I wasted time I could have spent on homework...
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Can't recognize handwriting properly
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Pls, make it work, and make the converting process faster - this is the only app on the market capable of that... %pls make it work, especially the scribe part... I will buy it! and not only me
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I know, handwriting OCR is nigh-impossible for an app, but you offered it and I had hopes. I took a picture of my clean, printed handwriting, "To be or not to be, That is the question." The result? " 3".
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I offered it printed text Arial 12 in good light conditions and it made so many mistakes, missing multiple words, transcribing words into numbers. Uninstall.
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Good for alien..because the words came out are understandable by alien!
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Engineering & Consultants
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Handwriting conversion does not come close to working
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Excellent work
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The apps is faster than text fairy but there is no other languages scanning options into scan & scrib
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I took a picture of my grocery list on our white board and tried to scan it and it didn't work the app crashed twice.
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Admittedly this is a hard task, but even if I write in very clear print this did not seem all accurate. The app seems to lack a probabilistic capacity to generate real words rather than nonsense strings of letters. Maybe greater accuracy will be achieved in the future.
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Doesn't read handwriting correctly
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I like it
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Kind of did it, but wayyy too many mistakes for this to even be better/quicker than typing everything out yourself
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Wow
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Great App. . . !
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Really wonderful .easy to use .
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Conversion seems to work fine. Sometimes results have small errors but i know handwritten conversion is not easy task to do. Thumbs up for the development team. I will wait for the better version.