TextGrabber scan and translate App Reviews

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Extremely useful. It would be great if we could merge the text from history or share it as a whole i said. Now sharing capabilities is great. And accuracy is quite high. Thank you very much indeed.

The best OCR app  App Store has to offer!. Top notch OCR app, that has been on my device(s) for nearly 10 years. Nothing I have used compares to this apps accuracy, simplicity, and overall function. Download this app, and never have to install another "OCR" app again.

Yayay! Time saver!!. Love it, it’s great. If it’s a good picture it always gets the text right. Even if it’s a bad picture, blurry, skewed, edited I. Some weird way. It’ll get the just of the Text and only leave you with a few spots to fill in. 10/10 would recommend

Not what I was looking for.... All I want is an app that will convert text from an existing photo into digital text that I can format the way I wish, without a scanner, multiple languages, etc. I want something simple and unsophisticated. This app is anything but. It is complicated, no home screen, forces you to select languages, but does not allow you to select English only. Can someone out there suggest an app that more closely corresponds to the simple app that I desire?

Time saver!. As a teacher, I sometimes need to get material transferred to my computer, and this app makes that process a lot easier that typing out the info for hours. Although it can sometimes be quirky, this app gets the job done and saves me a lot of time!

Needs work and improvements. Such high ratings for an app that constantly either not doing what it’s suppose to. OCR feature need work more text recognition...I could really do without all those symbol @&$”#%*€£¥> when it’s done scanning. It is annoying, very annoying. The paid finish product is very disappointing. Also, I’d like the developer to include Lao and Thai language in the translation feature. If I had known that Thai and Lao language translation was not included, I would not had bought it because it’s practically useless to me. How do I request for a refund in that regard? Edit: I just check again, there is no Thai or Lao language option for the translation feature? If there is it certainly isn’t on mine. How do I get it?

Great app, but recently…. Love this app. But there are a couple of things… 1. About two weeks ago, the feature of scanning an image directly from Photo quit working. Now I must go to the app first, get rid of the startup screen which informs me that I can go to Photo and share, and pull the image into the app that way. 2. Would be nice to have Spanish from Latin America language, not just Spanish from Spain.

Finally. So many scanner apps promise test digitalization or OCR, yet when it comes to it, a simple extracting of a telephone number from the bank transaction (charge description) becomes more work and steps than one would care to perform or remember. This app takes care of that and even remembers the results, without the need to bother with saving files. Ability to specify this app as a target for sharing in the helper menu is a key feature, not to minimize how well the app is made to handle all various OCR situations and text translation to/from 100 languages, even language detection, which is major, when you really need it, like to translate a message in a global chat. Best app.

Very bad usability. The OCR technology is good. But software is more than technology, snd this is where this software falls short. It is difficult to get it to work. For instance, how do you export a whole scan to evernote? Who even knows? It exports a random excerpt? And why is translation always offered as the most prominent next step? And once you figure out how it is supposed to work they change it around so you have to relearn it. ABBYY desperately needs design help.

Great Tool. I have been in Germany for the last few years. This application has been extremely useful. I have been able to translate everything written communication I get in German into English. The application is not perfect but it does the trick. I can read menu's, adds, shopping information, food labels and many other things on the spot. There is still room for improvement but I better deal with the 10% opportunity than with 100% ignorance. Bottom line, it is a great application worth having.

Amazing. Text grabber is an amazing app because I am able to use it whenever and I can convert the photos that I took and extract the text from the photo. I have been looking for an app like this for a long time and finally found it. I will say if I want to look through my files and convert them sometimes it won’t let me go to the page to convert them.

It works. It's simple, take a picture of text. Use the app to make the text something you can edit. Great for writing papers or for taking notes from handwritten text or books. It's not perfect. But it probably will be very soon. Of course it helps to have clean source to photograph from.

Load of ads, can't copy text. What a load of crap. I think I bought this years ago on iOS (I can't tell, since the appstore doesn't show prices once purchased). I used to be able to at LEAST copy text but their "..." and copy icon (That's documented on their website!) only brings up some STUPID "please pay us $9.99 every month" screen. I loved Abbyy on the PC but the stupid subscription app stuff has to stop!

Blown away by the good reviews!. Horrible. Tried several trials with and without graphics in the background, and either didn't even detect the language, in which it didn't even try to attempt OCR. Or on the rare occasion would try but would totally foul up the sentences and words. Best stick to the free Google Translate app which works brilliant in comparison to this one with real time video translate, or pictures that have already been taken in your Photos app as well. It easily picks up Cyrillic and other languages. ABBY just gouges. Good luck to the developer. Perhaps use some of the better open source OCR software available and add useful features that other apps don't already have.

Change that does not move forward.. This is an app and has helped me save time and construct documents. In the past since you have updated it it is very complex to use. Thé complexity makes it no longer usable to me. Why did you ruin a good app.

Great + one suggestion. Very handy. Text recognition is good/excellent My suggestion: It doesn't correct parallax of a scanned page. If you take the picture of a book there will be a distortion due to the page curve. It seems this causes issues with the OCR. Since we know that a lign should be straight, the software should be able to correct the parallax and correct distortion at the beginning and end of the lines. This, I assume, would improve the OCR of the scanned page. Anyway, great app

Great app does what it says it does. Have a screenshot with the serial number or tracking number that you need? On mobile comes in handy quite often. It’s difficult to toggle back-and-forth between applications and grab chunks of numbers and letters. Just take a screenshot and feed it to this application and then copy and paste away.

Lower-case L and fractions. This app works pretty well. However while using it to OCR recipes, I found a couple of things it does stumble on. First, it often converts lower-case L to a forward slash “/“. Second, fractions consisting of two numbers separated by a slash, e.g. “1/4”, are often converted to garbage. This problem is worse when reading a stylized fraction where the first number sits above the second number - that is, the 2 numbers do not share a baseline.

So far so good. I’m testing the app and it’s pretty accurate for recognizing English, which I really need it at this moment. However, there are a few things that doesn’t accurately. First, the app couldn’t recognize the words lie on the distortion of the photo during the photo taking process. Second, online translation into Vietnamse which has 20% vocabulary that could not be translated, and the translation is pretty wild (not smooth translation). Please take a look into those points. But in general, I am much appreciated how it works right now.

Amazing !. TextGrabber is amazing. I can aim it at a page and capture the text instantly with near perfect OCR. I can then send the text in a message to share the document or keep it for my use in writing.

excellent. I capture news items from the daily paper with this app: it's reliable and very convenient. The time savings for archiving important news items is fantastic.

Great App but not for Type-written Pages. The main reason I got Text Grabber was to transfer courier-font typewritten pages to editable text. Although it performed the best out of all the apps I’ve tried so far, it’s accuracy for my needs is still sporadic and incomplete. For everything but what I needed, this app is excellent.

Works. Would be helpful if after taking a screenshot and sending straight from that screen to textgrabber didn’t require a tap on the photos album from within textgrabber to show up.

Very Useful App. I give this app 5 stars because I’m a study of The Bible, it helps me by saving me a lot of typing. I take a screenshot of the Sermon PDF transcript and use this app to copy to my notepad on my iPhone and then transport the PDF to my iPad to see on a bigger screen.

Love to Use!. I love how easy this app makes it to have text that I would need to type in and instead it types it for me! Very easy go use and it’s my go to for capturing text. Thanks for making my copying and pasting life easier.

Inferior to OCR built into photos, spamware. Baffled by the positive reviews here. The OCR in Text Grabber is barely adequate, and changes to the privacy policy are suspicious. First, just take a photo with your phone on iOS 16 and tap the icon bottom left to capture OCR text more reliably than this app. Second, this would still be an okay app as an alternative to iOS native OCR… if it weren’t so privacy invasive. The app doesn’t need it to run, but will beg for your email, permission to send data to third party advertising partners, permission to access all photos (which also provides the geolocation history of every photo you took). Hard pass.

Pretty accurate!. I am quite pleased with this and it's nice if you want to look up a question on a worksheet for help but don't want to type it out yourself. The reading of the words is actually pretty accurate (as long as you hold the camera straight). It used to be more sensitive, but they have updated the app to be more precise and effective. Great app and completely worth downloading. This is a must-have.

Works very well!. I’ve used this app for a long while and I’ve been quiet about it, because it WORKS! Even when I give it a grainy pic. Recently took the iOS13 upgrade and was kindly asked to rate it. Sorry for waiting so long but rest assured I have recommended the app to many of my colleagues and friends over the years, primarily in the technical field. Hopefully they will add to the accolades and review it ALLSTARS as well. Keep up the good works. Btw: When a file export or save fails in other apps. I say “screw it” I got TextGrabber and they get the NOStars.

Extremely helpful. One of my favorite apps I recommend to others. Especially helpful for research or capturing interesting info when you run into it (like at a museum or household tips). Lost a star only because it too often puts in strange intęrnætîönål letters that should be filtered out when the majority of text is obviously English. I dislike correcting those; takes too much time. Just needs some logarithm tweaking. 👍

Years. I have been using TextGrabber for years and it is never disappointed and is only gotten better. Probably like six or seven years to be exact not many other apps have made it that long.

Who knows what the rent actually is?. I had a very simple thing to scan but not even translate and it worked great. There was a little glitch with the letter "u" (which nowhere spells the word "you" unless you want your [please, don't grunt "ur"]writing to appear to be regressing toward primitive humanity) but that's common with photo to text apps. I have no idea what the rent actually is … I don't know why developers think we enjoy being screwed by them and not even being clear what it will cost.

I LOVE THIS APP!!!. I cannot get over how amazing this is. I had no idea this exists and very easy to use too. Who ever developed this, you have no idea how you made my life so much easier. Thank you. I am an Operating room nurse and doctors have preference cards. Sometimes they just come to me with an old print of their list or someone's list and I always wished I have a way to easily transfer them and edit them from my phone. This is a dream come true. THANK YOU!!

Intuitive, accurate, simple. I had hundreds of screen caps of texts that needed transcribing. Absolutely thrilled with the functionality and ease of use of this app. Definitely worth the small sub fee. To the devs - thanks for saving me from a ton of work!

Very useful app. This app is used to enter text by scanning it via the camera. It takes the place of a dedicated scanner. There is a paid upgrade to translate the input. I have not used this feature so I can't rate this feature.

More subscription options please. App works fine despite occasional flaws of garbage characters possibly due to small text or insufficient lighting condition. However I do hope the developer will add more subscription options such as annually or lifetime in a more affordable deal for those who'd like to keep it on continual basis.

Have only used for taking print from books. I need it to take notes from books, not translate, and it works very well for that. Don't try to do the whole page at once... thirds or half work best. It's fast, requires a few corrections, but I'm studying so am willing to re-read and correct. Very satisfied. Months later: Now it's been "improved" and nothing works! Absolutely frustrating!

Great Text Recognition app. If you want a great application to capture text, whether it’s from a book, a document, or an article in a magazine, etc. this is the go-to app I would recommend. It’s not perfect - some text is incorrectly recognized, however, that is usually the fault of the lighting of the document being scanned. If you evenly light the image that you’re scanning before doing a scan you’ll have great results, although a couple of words may be incorrectly recognized. Minor effort is required to edit them before saving the documents or emailing them. My only gripe is that when combining multiple scanned pages, they are combined in a non-intuitive order. It would be nice if you could somehow number each page that was scanned in the order that you want them combined. Maybe this could be fixed in a future release!

It’s nice but overkill for some users. It’s pretty disappointing that if you want to use it as a simple text to speech app and just use it as a translator occasionally... you can’t. It will never just read the text in it’s original language. It will give you an error message that it must be translated into another language. I got this because I already read a lot and wanted to give myself a break. But alas, it won’t read English to English, etc.

Great App and easy to use. I use this app almost every single day to extract text from screen shot. I need to complain that the discount offer I saw on screen can not come through every time I clicked on.

Very useful. Glad I purchased this Sometimes when I want to select text on my iPhone I can't because it's not selectable That's where this application comes in I take a screenshot of it then I accessed the photo in this up and crop it and then this app will OCR it and I will copy the text and paste it somewhere else. It works great 😎👍🏻

Can’t even use the app.. I used up my 3 free tries doesn’t let me purchase one month. I deleted and redownloaded it get 3 more free tries still can’t buy premium. Says it’s not in correct format or something. Finally found a app to make my work easier but I have to delete and redownoald every 3 tries to even use it? Ruins the convenience for me. If only they had an option to pay them for this service. Back to looking for more apps.

One of ABBY’s best products. While I have had my gripes about ABBYY’s price and what I believe is a clear loss in the quality of the apps (ie it’s still hard to find better desktop software!), I nonetheless have to say this app is excellent. I am a PhD candidate in the humanities, and had to pass four research languages in order to complete the program. That meant I had to learn to translate quickly, and recognize common phrases in each language. If one is looking for the parsing or definition of a word then a lexicon is best, but if one needs to actually translate and work through sentence structure, then this is one of the most helpful apps I’ve found. I continue to use it for quick translation or to check my own rendering. *i do echo previous comments regarding whether the app utilizes the hardware of the latest iPhone effectively (it doesn’t); the iPhones have the best cameras on the market, and yet the ABBYY apps seem to struggle to take decent pictures. Sadly, it’s often easier and more accurate to take a picture with the native camera app and then import into the suite of ABBYY apps. (I have received multiple responses to this issue telling me I’m doing it wrong, but I have an actual lighting setup and a device that holds the phone over the page...I’m sure I will get corrected again 🙄 but there is some difference - that said ABBYY is still the best available).

Best and simplest app for text recognition. I’ve tried quite a few text recognition apps and I must say TextGrabber is the best. It’s so simple and elegant and gets 99% of the things right. The remaining 1%? Did you hold the page just wrong, or with a bend on the book page? Or perhaps with just enough low light? I’ve made all those mistakes and when I fix them, the app gives me a 100% perfect OCR.

Amazing App!. Cool, this app is so amazing! It saves a lot of time from writing a lot of text, instead I can take a snapshot of the text & instantly recognizes the text. Question: Is there a way for it to recognize handwritten notes? More than just fine print? Even cursive penmanship writing?

Most used accessory app. For years, TextGrabber has been my most-often-used app other than email, browser, texting, camera, etc. Virtually all my notes are courtesy TextGrabber, and I can't imagine living productively without TextGrabber.

Only the Fox Wants Monthly Access to the Chickenhouse. Where is the $2.99 or $3.99 option for this app? Only a THIEF wants monthly payments. That’s what the government does to people. That’s the kind of racket that made the mafia so successful. That’s what credit card companies do to people. That’s what ANY credit driven, money hungry business tries to do. And that’s what the corporate fox is always trying to do to customer’s henhouse - CREATE A BUSINESS MODEL THAT DEMANDS MONTHLY PAYMENTS INTO PERPETUITY. 1 Timothy 6:9-10 KJV 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root [rhiza - the TAPROOT ... the well established root system] of all evil [kakos]: WHICH WHILE SOME COVETED AFTER, they have erred from the faith, AND PIERCED THEMSELVES THROUGH WITH MANY SORROWS.

Great app. This is a wonderful app! The only thing that would help a bunch would be an Action Extension so I could send images directly to it rather than saving them, opening the app, and then pulling them in. An extensive URL scheme would also be fantastic, but that would just be for the advanced users. Thank you!

Really works!. Wow, OCR has really improved since I last messed around with it. Text grabber is extremely effective quite accurate even from a curved book page. Only thing missing from me is automatic saving/downloading to a designated site.

Great application!!. I love this app I have been using it for several years now. It really save me a lot of time whenever I have to write something up. I highly recommend it.

Barely even works. Every time I scanned a pic, the app would keep on saying stuff like “Unknown Language.” I tried at least 10 times, and all 10 of them failed! Though, I like your attempt, and that’s why it’s not 1 star. I changed my brightness and everything, and it would still not work! I tried both ways, and none of them actually worked. The closest translation I got was when I scanned it regularly. But 5 trys later, I have to pay for it! Yay.

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Excellent. Very impressed. Tried it out on a number of different sources and has recognized pretty well everything accurately. You do have to sometimes do it more than once to get a good pic and it can get confused with some text when there's a lot of font changes. Haven't tested translation but presumably similar to google translate quality, in other words completely hit & miss! Overall well worth it.

Does what it says. Best scanning app so far out of all the apps I have tried. It's accuracy is better than most of them. Save me heaps of time by not having to re type corrections

What’s going on?. I have purchased the full version before, it worked… Now it stopped working as a full Version and suggests I pay again… scam!!

Great app. This app is reliable and easy to use.

Hindi Please. Please create Hindi language option as a source language to be translated into other languages

No time to evaluate. Don’t get enough time to evaluate before being forced to subscribe. Sorry not for me. I want to know what I’m getting.

SCAM! Charging a fee for app i paid for in FULL. When I bought this app in FULL a few years back, the terms were the OCR features were working, it’s illegal and unethical to now demand I pay a monthly/yearly fee to make this app useable! Users, do not download and support this kind of shady business practice! You can get the same features for Free using Google lens/translate.

Excellent product. I have not been disappointed with this program Works very well

SSHS teacher. Awesome

The best option. I often have to get unselectable text on the screen and TextGrabber is the most accurate. I have been using it for years

Not really accurate. The camera capture translation isn’t accurate. Not worth paying money to use an app that doesn’t deliver.

好用. good

In Love!!. This Brilliant app saved my faith in technology when it was 1st released! Just the night before I thought to myself, ‘What I Need is ….(blahblah..)’ And whadaya know.. 😃 It was then I realised I have a 6th sense😉 You do too 🙌 Get it, get it now💫

Quick, easy and reliable. Always works, quick and easy to use, scans to OCR in no time at all. Best app I’ve tried

Good BUT. Don’t need it enough to pay ongoing Subscription.

A worthy OCR app. Great for print and uniform text standard typefaces, don't expect it to handle various fonts in the same capture with ease. To be expected. Otherwise a worthy app for your capture toolkit if you need to copy article, newspaper clippings, menus. Results vary when capturing from an LED/LCD screen; I wouldn't recommend doing so. It won't handle handwritten notes, hence 4 stars otherwise. Great app!

Save your money and use Google Lens instead.. It’s not a bad app, it’s just Google Lens can do everything this does and more and it’s free. Save your money and use Google Lens instead.

Mr Dinh. Not really perfect

Thanks. Quick and easy to use

Useful. I highly recommend using this app especially for students to help them to transform image to text

Impressively accurate. I get much better results from this than my canon printer OCR software. I'd say a handful of mistakes per page only.

Fantastic app. Accurate and easy to use. Occasionally fails to identify text in pictures.

Very Useful!. This app is excellent. It rarely makes any mistakes (which you can easily and quickly fix manually), the only real downside being its inability to read handwriting - however I do not expect any current technology to be able to do this (let alone some humans). Very good, definitely recommend.

Superb. I am a busy lawyer. This product is totally reliable. Enables me to extract materials from lumpy textbooks for court or advices. Brilliant product. After 2yrs daily usage still a perfect app.

JAPANESE NOT!. Japanese is listed as a supported language but it does not always recognise characters. I found that after a few quit and relaunches it did start recognising Japanese.

Great utility. Love this app it's great and works really well. It does get slightly confused when the background is mottled but does a much better job than others I have tried. The translation is also great especially when travelling to a foreign country

Great idea shame about monthly payments. I would have bought this for a one off fee, but monthly payments just isn’t acceptable for me.

Very good. This app pretty cool

It works!!!. I'm surprised that it actually works and that it only takes a second or two to read the text. Your not waiting ages for it to read it 5 stars!

Great app. Works really well. I've given it a try out on some images with writing & unless the background is rather "busy" it works really well.

Excellent!. Works as advertised. My go-to app to capture text.

So close to being perfect. I love that you have adopted Siri shortcuts. Could you allow text to be copied straight to the clipboard so we can add it to a shortcut. I made one that checks ingredient lists for my wife’s allergy.

Arabic. When will Arabic be added to source language?

:). Great time saver

Simple and easy. I like the uncluttered, logical layout of this app. It's user-friendly and efficient. I deleted my previous scan & translate app.

Essential. A true tool. One of my favourite apps.

The best little app I ever had. I use it all the time to remind

I'm being picky because you've forgotten about my hemisphere. I see in the latest update you are welcoming "the arrival of spring." I guess this means you guys don't realise that this app is available worldwide, including the entire Southern Hemisphere, where it is now autumn (or 'fall' as it's called in a couple of countries).

Useless. No Arabic. Totally useless app. No Arabic translations! Arabic is in the top 5 most spoken languages on the planet! What is that? Bizarre.

I love you TextGrabber. I love this application so much

Not good. Not good

A. J.. Very helpful

Waste of my money. Doesn’t do what it said it would, I would be asking for a refund if I knew how. Waste of money. I’ll just type it out manually than mess about with this garbage system that struggles to ‘grab’ an address let alone the whole letter. Thanks for nothing

Accuracy. Loving this app and it keeps getting better

Been using this app for years and love it. Absolutely trustworthy. Love it.

Room for improvement. It’s better than nothing but still makes quirky mistakes. It does help at times, especially when needing to go through huge documents.

Great!. Very good

No good at Japanese. This app is great at grabbing the text but cannot handle translation into Japanese. Doesn't recognise the fact that Japanese is written right to left and up and down. Can't even translate a simple hiragana sentence even when it's written in normal sentence form. Don't buy this App if you want Japanese translations. It was pretty good with French though.

Simply Great. *****

Doesn’t recognise English from screenshot very well. Took a screenshot from the Costco app & ran it through this app. Said that it couldn’t recognise the language…

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One of the best apps I've got. This app has saved me hours of typing and has paid for itself many times over in salaries saved. Cannot rate it high enough. Just make sure you proofread the results. It isn't 100% accurate.

My Fav App!. I use this app a lot daily. It is the best of its kind. Thank you.

Top choice. Top choice. No regrets

Excellent app!!!. Don't know how I ever got along without this application. Slick conversions to text and translates into English when required. This is a "must have" app.

Useful app. My wonderful app

Best app I found to help me with reading written words. Best app I found to help me with reading written words

Absolutely Terrible App. It constantly never reads the pictures I take! I've tried it multiple times, not at all worth 2$ don't waste your time!

Texte. C'est bien.

Run a spe^] chec%er, p#ease!!!. This is a fairly decent app. I've had it a few years and it has improved dramatically. I still get the odd ludicrous result which you would think a spell checker could catch--umbrella//a, for example. But it does a very creditable job overall.

Great job. 😊 very good

App does just what I wanted. Recommended to all of my children and grandchildren ... saying that makes me sound real old and dull.

Text grabber. Fantastic app

Annoying. Really annoying tbh, does not pick up text accurately and constantly prompts to buy when using the app. I deleted it within 5 mins of use.

Really impressed by this app. This app is so accurate at capturing text from anything, I'm really amazed! I try their Screenshot Reader 11 for desktop and didn't disappoint me. Keep up the good work!

Very useful app, could use a clearer interface. Great OCR.

Love it. Just love it

Why. I really don’t appreciate how I can only use it 3 times if I choose to not spend $2.70 every month. Please just make this free!!

Works great. This program works great. I have grabbed text off of my screen as well as printed material. Occasional wonky characters, but not a big deal to do some editing on the final text.

Don’t bother with it anymore. After last update, Terms and conditions required you to accept spying your activity. Terrible, just deleted it after using it for a long time, and rest of our colleagues. Don’t bother with it.

Très bon système. Bon pour une bonne traduction

Terrible. Errors all around

How!?. This app had alot of good reveiws but I dont get it! It translates to gibberish and I just dont understand! They only want money and you can only translate 3 times for free!!!!!! It just doesnt do ita job!!!!

Hate the update. The recent update is totally unfriendly. No matter how often I tried to capture a full page I cannot do so. Too bad. It was one of my favourite apps

Forget It. Doesn't work 9 out of 10 times.

Won't Even Install. Won't install on my iPod Touch running IOS 4.3.5 despite mutiple attempts. A waste of money - avoid.

Perfect !. It make the job very well with photos, but the possibility to read a PDF would be even more convenient.

Should explicity state that it doesn't work with theiPod Touch 4. This is the first camera-enabled app that I've encountered that either A) doesn't work with the iPod Touch 4 or B) doesn't explicitly warn you ahead of purchase of this deficiency. Not even after contacting them about this has their app's description been revised to make it clear that the iPod Touch isn't supported. Oh well. It was probably all for naught anyway, considering the poor reviews that TextGrabber has garnered already by iPhone owners. I'll not buy anything from this developer (ABBYY) again.

Great app easy to use. I used it to capture ingredients for recipes works well

Pretty good so far!. Used the app to save some decaying and yellowing pages a while ago, the results way nicer now. Saves me from hrs. of transcribing.

Korean recognition does not work.. I continuously get an error. Dont bother if you need this for Korean.

Great product. Great product

Perfect App for my needs. Has never failed yet. Great job. Thanks

excellent app. Text grabber

How..... This is a scam it does not work and it just translates it to random characters all of the 5 or 4 stars reviews are most likely fake cause how are they suppose to translate I would give this a negative 100 stars cause it sucks don’t get or buy the scam packages

Grab text and even translate it - Excellent!. Great app and worth spending a bit to add the multilingual translation. Take a photo of a menu or a sign in another language and get a translation. Screenshot a website on your phone and grab relevant text detail to paste into a message. Awesome travel companion and utility on my phone. First rate!

Good app. Works great

Translate. 👍🏻 app is good

great app !!!. have used this app for some time now.. just keeps getting better !! many thanks to the dev(s).. really appreciated

Doesn’t work well to recognize chinese. I’ve tried many times, many angles to make sure that it wasn’t because of me, the way I took the picture... yet, 7 characters out of 20 are wrong when transposed in a text. So this app is ok for students who has plenty of time to loose... personally I’ll call for the help of a humans to help me out with my chinese text. The technology in itself is very interesting so I guess I spent my money on the future...

Useful app. Like it

The best app ever. It works every time

Not Reliable. One needs to make sure that the photo taken is highly saturated with light, not really adequate for ease of everyday use. English works well, but non-Latin languages leave a lot to be desired (namely Cyrillic and Japanese).

Awful.. Awful. You have to buy premium to do anything useful. It makes you agree to them taking data to use the app. The text it gave me was gibberish and not what I was trying to scan. Awful.

Used to be good. At the beginning it was simple and fail proof. Now the message asking to choose the right language doesn't go away and covers 2/3 of the screen, and no auto focus. The image is blurred, the letters are not recognized.

Works as described!!. I recommend this to anyone.

OMG Best App Ever!!!. Can’t believe how awesome this app is?? Nothing else comes close!! I have scanners that I bought that do not do what this app. does, not work as good! Seamless!!

Easy, Effective. Great results on very first attempt. saved me lots of time!

Not Recommended. Why to pay $5.49 when application is relying on Google as I can see google analytical information is on in application and Google Translate is free on other hand even in offline mode I am using all over the world around two years with so much facilities like instant camera translation, whole or selective instant translation from picture. This application very first could not recognise the source language when I tried several times from picture. I don’t recommend to buy this application by paying $5.49. It is just waste of money. Try other application like Google Translator or Microsoft translation.

Fantastic. Very useful, whatever mentioned are existing

Very good text scanner tool. Easy, quick, accurate.

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Agree to ads?. I’ve had this on my iPhone for a long time, but update demanded I agree to receive ads from third parties. The app is now gone from my iPhone. Developer response said I can turn off ads. I’ve added a star.

EVERYONE NEEDS THIS!. This is sooo exciting! I’ve spent years transcribing documents and this wonderful little app does it for me! An absolute “must have” for every researcher!

Flawless. I have been using this app on and off for years now. Always delivers amazing results. Seriously considering updating to the full version.

Translates fairly well. I find this app extremely useful. On the negative side, if the background is colored or the page bent a bit, some words are incorrect. But for the most part, TextGrabber is a good workhorse of a program!

Very good. This is literally the best thing ever makes life so much easier. I printed something and forgot to turn it in online and ended up losing it but I had it printed so this app saved my grade.

What a Time Saver. I love this app, it saves me so much time. Rather than type info out . I just do a screen capture then open up text grabber. Quick and easy AZ

Doesn't Work. Long story short I had a 9 page essay saved online and it got deleted. Naturally, I thought using this app and my paper copy would be an easy way to re-write the thing and get it online again. It wasn't. This app is a scam and a waste of money. It copies the words so laughably bad it looks like a toddler typed it up.

One of the most useful apps on my phone!. Love this app! Copies text from literally anywhere and is surprisingly accurate!

It works really well. It does what it says. The foreign languages cost extra, but whatever. I like using this for snagging recipes out of old cookbooks.

Longtime user. This app comes in handy when I need to lift a quotation from a printed book to use in a document. I don’t have to key in the text letter by letter. Saves precious time!

Great app when traveling abroad. I had a strange occurrence when driving a rental car in Italy—discovered the manual was entirely in Italian. Used the app to successfully ascertain that I had temporarily overload the catalytic converter, and that more temperate driving would allow it to self-correct (which it did later). This app allowed me to de-stress at a crucial point!

Wasteful Trial Period. I tried snapping a pic of text to translate Spanish to English. I tried to select the language translation, but each selection used up one of the three trial uses. I never did get the language selection right before all trial uses were used up. Why would I buy an app that I couldn’t prove worked? App deleted.

Does not work well on books. I downloaded this app to use primarily on books. The photos i used are nice and clear yet it comes out with all these weird symbols and I end up having to correct a bunch of errors.

It cost money.. The free one only lets you use it 3x. It copied everything perfectly now I have to figure out how much they want.

Auto renew. Had the hardest time cancelling. All they tell you is to shut off auto renew but do not tell you how to find auto renew. It should be located in settings but the only thing that has anything to do w account under settings is “premium” and when I click on this to cancel auto renew it just says “payment approved” ready to report them to apple at this point

I take photos of a paragraph of text I wish to quote. The OCR is reliable. Photos of paper books I am reading to quote in correspondence or add to a list is easier with this app.

The best OCR app out there. This app is easy to use. It is accurate in a wide variety of settings. It allows me to share words of great authors that I would, otherwise, not share due to the length of the excerpt. Well done.

Works like a charm now. I rescind my previous lower rating where the app did not allow grabbing text-based image from Photos app. It does.

 Sherlocked this Awesome App. App is awesome and has served me well for years, but iOS 15 Sherlocked it. So it’s an end of an era. Thanks for all time you’ve saved me.

Fast and easy. This simple tool lets me capture great thoughts and get them recoded quickly. If my picture is good, the resulting text is right on.

I love this app. When I have my Spanish class I always have to type in the Spanish but with this app I can save a lot of time with just a picture

An excellent app for students!. I’ve been using this app for 3 months and is amazing. It helps you to be more productive with your time and get better grades. I recommend this app to all my friends.

Haven’t finished trial. I’m only submitting this review because the app keeps popping up the rating screen while I’m trying to email a capture to myself, keeping me from being able to complete the email!

Would’ve been higher. I just started using the app and up pops a review dialog. But I’m in process of sending mail through the app. Guess what now I’m stuck. I can send the mail or submit the rating. After some iOS gymnastics I finally get it back. Fix this...

Immediately Uninstalled. for an app that touts you don’t have to be online to scan a document, when you download, you are supposed to agree to letting abby monitor your usage, accept communications and other privacy concerns, just to test it. also, it is a subscription base model, which I did not see in their ad.

Doesn’t actually recognize text!. This used to be great but now it doesn’t recognize clear pictures of texts! I spend more time correcting the text it grabs than I would actually typing the words in the first place. Sorry I payed for the premium version 😞

Working great!. I have been using this app for a couple of years now and really appreciate how it works saving me from having to rewrite information from one medium to another.

Works like butter. Been using it for years, was always good, keeps getting better and better. Worth the $

Everything I need for notes taking. Great product

Accurate with spanish english text. It works well with Spanish and English text, so far i didn't find mistakes, that is exactly what i did expect from the app.

Very useful App. I use TextGrabber in order to copy printed text and transfer it to my computer. This is necessary for my job as a Teacher of the Visually Impaired. To have to type everything I need to transfer to braille is very time consuming. TextGrabber makes the process much smoother and quicker.

Love this app. If you are in school any schooling and need to change pdfs to text this is your app just screen shot it first

Love TextGrabber!. I've been using TextGrabber for years and it has never disappointed me! This is a great must have app for everyone. I absolutely love this app.

English to wingdings. If you need an app that captures English and translates it into unintelligible wingdings then this is the app for you. If you want to throw your money away on a paid app that does not work as advertised and does not accurately lift text from photographs then look no further. If you want an app that can translate up to 90 languages... poorly... then this my friend is the app for you.

Really?. First of all congratulations guys for celebrating the app and the service, however, the new logo looks like some kind of Police department.

Love this app!. I’ve used this app for years to grab text from photos. A real time saver! Quick, easy, and convenient.

Works fine. No issues. Does everything I need plus a lot more.

It just works. If you ever wanted a PDF to become a text that can be edited. This is the best app on the market. Simple to use. And it just works.

Excellent app!. Very easy to use. Accurate. Even better with the recent updates. Best app of this kind I've yet come across

Great app!. So often i need to grab a couple of sentences, or a paragraph. With this app, I can do that very quickly and easily. The accuracy is quite high, so it's a real time saver.

95% of the time it doesn’t work.. I’m in Korea and trying to read package labels in grocery stores and public signs explaining a statue or tourist site. The app usually says it can’t identify the language and stops there. Or, it will let me know it’s having trouble and ask if I want to continue. I click yes and I just get gibberish. It’s a great idea if it would work.

Pretty Good!. Good for get text off documents such as pdf or photos... accuracy may depend on the quality of the camera on your device!

Fantastic application!. Better than I ever thought it would be. It's now one of my go to applications and I only got it for fun to start with.

Had for years still never succeed. I do try this ever now and then hoping I could get a page of text to be read to my by my phone while driving and such, it has never worked. Plane text, and hand written, tried many things... always get weird symbols and unreadable image. It's to bad.

Best. your application is very good, I often wear it. however .. over the years I always wait for your application to support Arabic language OCR.

Congratulations!!!. On your 10th year! What an awesome useful app! I use it frequently and occasionally it will mess up a little with the wording but not enough to not want to give it a 5 Star rating... Highly recommended!

Worst app ever. I bought this app so I could translate my text books to digital and read them on the go. It gets the words wrong for most of the paragraphs, and it takes anything in quotations and puts weird letters and symbols in it so it’s not even words anymore. I even tried doing 1/2 pages to see if was better, it was actually worse. Don’t waste your time on this app!

Great / but not free. This app is fantastic and works well - as opposed to two others I tried incl Adobes’s. Accuracy of the text capture and quality of translation is astounding. But unless you pay premium (worth it in my case) - the constant pop up of the upgrade window is super annoying. So don’t bother calling it free - you pay a subscription. Note to developer: I’d love to be able to capture a new image and adding the text to an existing note vs creating two notes. Thanks for considering.

Outstanding app. Superb and outstanding Has made it so easier to copy read and translate languages n texts Love it Hope they make the premium version free for at least some users for trial purpose

Very useful app. This is a great app and truly grabs text and immediately converts them from 1 language to another