DocScanner Mac 1.1 update is now available with major UI and usability improvements.
DocScanner Mac upcoming curvature correction example
Today we announced about the new curvature correction algorithm we have developed. It will be added to DocScanner Mac soon. This new algorithm enables user to scan books with any camera. The algorithm generates two flat and straight pages from each picture of a spread of a book. It was not quite straightforward to develop an algorithm to solve this problem, so we are really happy to announce these news. An example image after the break. Continue reading »
Thank you all for the feedback and questions you’ve sent us!
Many have had issues getting the OCR to recognize the text properly and some users didn’t find the app to produce what they expected.
Take the photos with at least 5 Mpix camera, if good OCR results are wanted.
Take the photos with at least 5 Mpix camera, if good OCR results are wanted.
Issues with low-res photos
The biggest issue is clearly the low quality of the original photo that users have tried to run the OCR with. We’ve asked some users to send us the photo they’re trying to run the OCR to. Just like we expected, the resolution have been more or less 72 dpi, which is not good enough for the Tesseract OCR.
The DocScanner Mac’s OCR feature is meant for high-resolution photos, taken in 5 Mpix or greater quality.
In short, if you want good results with the OCR feature, please run it on High quality, min. 5 Mpix photos. You might want to use the edit panel to fine tune the photo, before running the OCR. The OCR’d text resets, if you edit the photo in DocScanner Mac after the initial run, so you’ll just need to click the “OCR” -button again. Continue reading »
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