# Image Text OCR Photo Scanner — user reviews > 56 indexed App Store user reviews of Image Text OCR Photo Scanner by Pranoy Chowdhury, rated 4.70/5 from 135 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/image-text-ocr-photo-scanner/id1499292605/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/image-text-ocr-photo-scanner/id1499292605.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 119 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 8 ## What do users think of Image Text OCR Photo Scanner? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and efficient - 👍 Easy to use - 💡 Versatile and useful - 💰 Excellent value for money - 🎯 Accurate OCR - 🚫 No ads or bloatware - 🔌 Works offline - 🔄 Perpetual purchase (no subscription) - ✨ Lightweight and simple - 🌟 Highly recommended - 🗂️ Integrates with share menu - ✂️ Great crop selection tool - 📄 Extracts text from images/screenshots - 🖼️ Highlights recognized text **Cons** - 🐛 Free version limited - ❓ Unclear instructions - ❌ Does not work for Cyrillic - 💸 Hidden costs / bait and switch - 📉 Inaccurate OCR on complex images - 🖼️ Cannot compare OCR to original image - 🔄 Minor formatting issues (extra returns) - 💻 Mac app less straightforward **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes when restoring purchases (iOS 16) - Crashes frequently (older versions) - Does not perform OCR as advertised (reads metadata only) - Fails on complex images (ads with multiple fonts/colors) **Most requested features** - Add shortcuts support - Basic files app integration - Option to hide EXIF data - Japanese character recognition support - UI improvements for viewing recognized text ## Newest reviews (14 of 56) ### 5/5 — Great OCR scanner! *2020-07-28* Just got wind of this. Very handy extension that just works. No unnecessary application, 3rd party services, cloud features I don’t need, or annoying ads. Install. Activate extension. Take photos with whatever camera app you prefer and OCR them. Tried it on everything from a bill, a business card, a page out of a book, a PDF. Recognized text FAST and let me do what I wanted with it easily. Great extension. Happy to recommend it. **Developer response:** Thank you!!!!! Glad you love it!! ### 5/5 — Best App for Grabbing Text from an Image *2020-07-27* Great app for getting text out of an image as quickly as possible! Kudos to the developer for making my life easier! ### 5/5 — Perfect *2020-06-21* It’s so incredibly handy. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Life and time saver *2020-06-17* This has been the most used app in both my Mac and iOS device, especially since these uncertain times where jobs change dynamics. I love how I can use it via the photos app and it’s really easy to use. It identifies lines and breaks them so the content is easy to copy. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind feedback! ### 5/5 — Fantastic App *2020-06-01* I have tried numerous OCR apps and this app does everything I was looking for in a OCR app. The share extension makes it really easy to copy some text out of a screenshot. My only feedback would be to add an option to hide the EXIF data to make the UI less cluttered. **Developer response:** Thank you so much!!!! I will add a setting to hide the exif data! ### 5/5 — Don’t Buy Some $10-$50 App - This Is All You Need! *2020-05-18* This app is lightweight, fast, and even more accurate than Readdle’s Scanner Pro OCR feature. It can easily differentiate between numbers and letters, and lists websites, emails, and phone numbers in a quick easy to copy and paste manner. If you want to scan emails, textbook questions, message history, app comments, etc, this app will get it done right and in a quick manner. Highly recommend this app and this developer! **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind feedback! :) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2020-04-20* This app is truly amazing, without upgrading the app is quite useful for reading EXIF data but if you decide (you definitely should) to upgrade you can easily grab words off of images. 5/5 Great for the techie and elderly and everyone in between. **Developer response:** Thank you very much!!! ### 5/5 — Amazing Word Recognition *2020-04-14* The word recognition on this app is amazing! The accuracy is 99%! There’s an occasional hiccup but that’s usually because of what is being scanned. Amazing app! **Developer response:** Thank you!!! ### 5/5 — Easily the best text recognition app in its class. *2020-03-20* This app is absolutely perfect. No bloat. No ads. No analytics. Just a quality made app that hasn’t been destroyed by a greedy developer. It looks great. Works perfectly. And does what it does EXTREMELY well. Support ethical developers. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind feedback! Glad you appreciate my no bloat philosophy of app development! ### 5/5 — So good! MUST DOWNLOAD! *2020-03-16* Redditor u/TheWildOneFTW here, I love this app, it’s fast, takes up minimum space and is extremely accurate. Thank you so much for this app it gets me through my exams **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind word! Good luck with exams! ### 5/5 — Brilliant app *2020-03-15, version 2.1* Was looking for one with a one time purchase versus subscription. This guy really outdid himself! ### 5/5 — Cool app for doing OCR of photos *2020-03-15* Once installed, the app shows up as a shortcut when you tap the share button. From there it gives a screen that lets you copy/paste all the text and meta data from the photo. Very handy! **Developer response:** Thank you! ### 5/5 — Works instantly! *2020-03-15* If you have a good enough image, this app works perfectly and instantly. I do have a lot of other apps that are not reliable including the ones from Google and Microsoft. ### 5/5 — Great and fast *2020-03-15* Great and fast app very small download too amazing ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Total piece of junk *2023-05-07, version 4.0* Got the free version try to scan one document. It scanned like three words from the top heading of the document. Total piece of garbage. I'm gonna delete it from my system. Don't waste your time. ### 1/5 — Didn’t work for Russian *2022-08-28, version 4.0* I had hopes, but it sure wasn’t scanning Cyrillic ### 1/5 — Does not work, not user error. *2021-11-06* First, to make this work they provide no real images except 2 icons in the instructions. You kinda have to know instinctively what they mean. But even when you manage to follow the instructions, this does NOT perform OCR… that is just false. This app only looks at the image metadata and shows it for you. I took screenshots from a mobile game with a list of players. Despite the text being in very distinctive colors than the background and there being nothing else on the image, to one letter was identified by this app. Not one. It only showed me the information regarding the file. OCR means Object Character Recognition and not EXIF data reader. It is false that this app can do OCR at least in what I tested it with. **Developer response:** I am sorry to hear about your issue. My app does perform OCR and also provides the metadata. Can you email me the picture along with what device and iOS you are using? You can email me at pran@pranapps.com ### 1/5 — Hidden costs *2021-07-20* It should tell you up front that it costs $3.99. Instead it waits until you try to scan something and then you have to purchase. If I would have seen the cost I would just purchased it but this feels like bait and switch. Like you get a trial you don’t. (It showed me just 3 inaccurate words.) ### 1/5 — Crashes all the time *2020-02-29, version 1.5* Crashes on literally every photo. Deleted it after several tries ### 3/5 — Needs to be able to see the photo *2020-03-08* Would like to be able to see the photo when looking at the ocr so I can at least compare how accurate it is Its doesn’t work at all if it isn’t a text documents/all text images It fail when shown pictures of super market ads with pictures and 3 different font sizes and different color with prices and names of products **Developer response:** The app extension shows the photo on the bottom right corner. Does it not show for you? You can tap that photo to see a larger version (with zoom and crop capability). If you are having issues with the actual OCR, please email me a sample image which has the issue to pran@pranapps.com ### 4/5 — Handy app. Works well. *2020-03-15* This app does a fine job OCR. Adds a few extra carriage returns, but you aren’t retyping stuff! ### 4/5 — Japanese support? *2020-03-15, version 2.1* Very good app. Is it possible to recognize Japanese characters? ### 4/5 — Pretty good at what it does, needs some UI improvements. *2020-03-03* Initial download had crashes because of memory issues. Now it loads images well and quickly pulls text from images without problems. Fairly accurate, even with small and hard to read text. I would like to see some UI improvements so I can easily see the text that was pulled, but so far so good **Developer response:** EDIT: Hello, hope you can give the latest version 1.7 a try as that fixes any crash issues. Most users are reporting the crash issue is fixed now. Hope you update your review once tested! Feel free to send any feedback to pran@pranapps.com Thank you for the feedback, I am aware of the issue and have submitted an update to Apple which should most likely be available tomorrow! Please give it another try after the update. I am really sorry for the inconvenience. ### 5/5 — Great! *2025-11-29* Excellent value. Worth every penny ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The Best *2022-11-08* The Best ### 5/5 — Can't restore purchases *2022-09-22* I am on iOS 16 and I can't restore purchase. The app just freezes. Also I couldn't contact developer in app. Great app by the way! ### 5/5 — Review of OCR *2022-09-12* It’s almost impossible to apply a OCR software to any thing I have trying to scan something or trying to type something of my own I was hoping to have text to speech and speech to text and I’ve got neither of those things I need health but there’s no way to get assistance at least I haven’t figured it out that’s my review **Developer response:** Hey, have you tried dragging an image into the menu bar icon of my app? If it doesn’t work and you need help, please email me at pran@pranapps.com ### 5/5 — So Amazing and Versatile *2022-03-22* so many times i’ve used this to copy and paste multiple phone numbers or sometimes just being surprised what shows up in a photo . Twenty Thumbs up i do believe i’ve had this app not long since original launch i know i’ve had for years , a glad to see others finding this Gem of an outstanding helpful app. ### 5/5 — Works great! *2021-12-27, version 4.0* I appreciate that this purchase is perpetual, not a subscription. ### 5/5 — Super useful tool *2021-06-04* I can't stress enough how easy it is to work with. The fact that it is on the share menu, as an option in the drop down list. I breeze through my snap shots to convert to text and incorporate it into my spread sheets and word documents. Also the crop selection tool it's god like, since some times documents are irregular in shape and can wrap around tables and figures or pics. makes it super easy to extract selectively. you are awesome guys keep up the good work did i mention you don’t need internet connection for it to work how awesome is that. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind feedback! Glad you love it! ### 5/5 — Brilliant app *2020-12-14* Been using this app for a little while and it’s simply fantastic. Very quick, efficient and almost always accurate. Thank you dev! **Developer response:** Thank you! ### 5/5 — Fantastic tool *2020-12-14* I use this app quite a bit and it’s one of my most important utility! I use it to quickly capture screen shots of numbers or codes from app giveaways which are then converted to text and redeemed in the app store. I just wish the Mac app is as straightforward to use like the iPhone app. All said, it’s crazy fast and accurate in making text and numbers in pictures editable. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind feedback! Cheers! ### 5/5 — The best OCR app out there *2020-10-10, version 3.0* Chocked with great features, easy to set up, totally versatile. I’m so glad I took the time to dig through the App Store to find this. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-05.*