Comments on: Full OCR coming to DocScanner iPhone in few days

By: Tuomas Rasila

Tuomas Rasila — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:09:07 +0000

The OCR is done when you run the “Spooler”. After this all exported PDFs have the OCR data and you can copy the text with PDF reader on your computer.

Hope this helps.

By: Atef

Atef — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:38:36 +0000

I get the DocScanner to use the OCR but I can’t find it ?
Could you advise me how can I use it?
Thanks,
Atef

By: Vince T.

Vince T. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:52:43 +0000

I’m blind, and would use an iPhone with OCR to read the mail, travel timetables, possibly street signs,, ingredients on food packages, leaflets that come with medication…….. maybe even some short stories from a book.

All of this would be great for preserving my independence and reucing my call on public services.

The iPhone is particularly good for this because of the built-in text-to-speech.

By: Tuomas Rasila

Tuomas Rasila — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:34:29 +0000

Hi,

Manual rotation is there, but the ui is not good. After scanning you can make circle with you finger and the document rotates. Next release 3.0.3 is out in few days and after that you can use two-finger gesture (similar to Preview.app on Mac) to rotate documents. Currently we do not have plans for handwrite recognition (only OCR), however Evernote does great job wit that.

By: paradeiser

paradeiser — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:58:58 +0000

either scanning handwritten notes or bills for archiving.
folders would be nice – manual rotation (on iPhone) is really missing (horizontally taken pictures are often wrong orientated)