# OCR Scanner - Images & documents to text — user reviews > 163 indexed App Store user reviews of OCR Scanner by Smart Mobile Software, rated 2.80/5 from 103 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ocr-scanner-images-and-documents-to-text/id479890861/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ocr-scanner-images-and-documents-to-text/id479890861.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 29 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 46 ## What do users think of OCR Scanner? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Works great - 🚀 Saves time - 👍 Accurate OCR - 👍 Useful for research and study - 👍 Decent accuracy for casual use **Cons** - 🐛 Doesn't work at all - 🐛 Produces gibberish or blank output - 🔒 Limited free usage, requires paid credits - 🐛 Inconsistent performance, works sometimes but not others - 🐛 Doesn't work for certain languages like Japanese - 🐛 Formatting issues, loses paragraphs and formatting **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes or freezes app - Doesn't detect text at all - Paid version doesn't work as expected - Daily credit limit issues **Most requested features** - Offline OCR capability - Batch processing support - Better formatting preservation - Improved language support ## Newest reviews (17 of 163) ### 4/5 — I like it! *2016-04-03, version 1.5* I like this little app. It works and is generally accurate. Useful to me. Wish it had a five page batch feature. Thanks! ### 1/5 — Worked well until I paid for unlimited *2016-01-21, version 1.5* Worked really well on a few test images. Then after I paid for unlimited scans it stopped working. Wouldn't even change the test images it had changed to text before. I feel absolutely conned!!! ### 1/5 — Pretty poor *2015-12-05, version 1.5* It's a bit misleading this App. It says it gives you five daily credits, but once you use these up you don't get any new ones the next day. Also if the text recognition fails, you will just end up with no text and it uses one of your credits. Apart from that it's just about functions. Pity it doesn't carry over any formatting such as paragraphs as it is all bundled into one big long piece of text. Badly needs updating. I found it actually quicker to take a picture with my camera, email it to myself on my laptop and use an OCR program there to convert it. So at the moment it's a bit of a waste of time to be honest. ### 1/5 — Useless in Japanese *2015-12-04, version 1.5* Didn't try it in any other language, but it's absolutely useless in Japanese. Tried a couple of times with really large, clear text -- just two kanji and two kana, and it was giving me these crazy results of like multiple sentences that had some other unrelated kanji repeated like 10 times and I don't even know. ### 1/5 — Don't work *2015-11-11, version 1.5* I bought pay version. Does not work on iPhone 6 and iPad 2 ### 1/5 — Crashes every time. iOS 9.1 *2015-10-25, version 1.5* Fail, deleted. ### 1/5 — Didn't work *2015-10-13, version 1.5* Tried with my son's school worksheets and didn't work. Came out with weird characters and blank. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work. *2015-10-05, version 1.5* Doesn't work. ### 1/5 — App is free *2015-10-05, version 1.5* You get limited usage of the app unless you buy more service, I hate come on's! ### 1/5 — Photo in, garbage out *2015-09-26, version 1.5* It doesn't work. Either I get nothing or I get garbage. Disappointed. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work and no support *2015-09-04, version 1.5* Doesn't work and no support since 2013. ### 1/5 — Only get 5 free OCR scans a day *2015-07-19, version 1.5* I didn't even test this apps OCR abilities because it only gives 5 free OCR scans a day which is useless. Although it's OCR abilities is probably horrible since out of a dozen apps I've only been able to find one that can detect even clear text from an image. ### 1/5 — Used to be great *2015-07-10, version 1.5* Used it loads, paid for full version but it no longer works at all. Shame ### 1/5 — Thought it was great *2015-06-24, version 1.5* Started of thinking: This is a great app. Works well. It makes it much easier to essentially scan and edit documents. Waited for my daily credits to restore, only to find out that they don't! You only get 5! ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2015-06-09, version 1.5* Complete waste of time! ### 1/5 — Doesn't give 5 free daily as advertised *2015-03-27, version 1.5* It only let me do 4 then hosed up on the 5th scan. I can come back daily or weekly and it still says I have no free one to use. Stuck on saying I have 0/5 ### 1/5 — Free version not worth it. *2015-03-17, version 1.5* Out of my five free scans, one resulted in an error; retried the same image and got good text. One other try resulted in good results. Holding on to my last two free scans for something important. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — not very good *2017-09-01, version 1.5* dont waste your time or clog up your library with useless apps. ### 1/5 — Don't install *2017-03-22, version 1.5* By far the worst OCR ever! ### 1/5 — Dead? *2017-02-20, version 1.5* Paid version download was no different from free version. Received no response from developer when I called this to their attention. ### 1/5 — Warty *2017-02-05, version 1.5* I Agree with FREEMAN. I have used for a week, used up the initial 5 credits and not received the stated 5 daily credits. Also a scanned page requires an unacceptable amount of editing after conversion. However I HAVE received the promised 30 credits for posting this review! ### 1/5 — Does not work *2017-02-02, version 1.5* No point in downloading this ### 1/5 — Junk basically at this point *2016-09-03, version 1.5* Was fine when working ... years ago, not working any more ### 1/5 — Doesn't work at all *2016-08-25, version 1.5* Simply doesn't work. ### 1/5 — Terrible app! *2016-08-07, version 1.5* It does not work. Took a picture but could not copy text to clipboard. Useless. ### 1/5 — Wouldn't read *2016-05-24, version 1.5* I tried and tried on my iPhone 6 to simply read my Address on a letter but all I got was mumbled letters so hope you have better luck. ### 1/5 — Fraud *2016-02-14, version 1.5* This is a fraudulent application. It works in the trial version (it gives u five ocr readings per day) but, to buy the app, they tell you that you get unlimited ocr readings for only 3$ so u r encouraged to buy it (since it seems it is working well). But, when u buy the application, it is terrible, first it doesnt support any language other than english, second the ocr is very very and extremely bad... Most probably, the developers of this app, they use their own paid account at an ocr company to do the ocr for you in the trial version, but when u buy the app, then u will be working on their bad version. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Works great! *2017-10-24, version 1.5* Perfect app, saved me so much time ❤️❤️❤️ ### 5/5 — Great appI Use it all the time. *2016-10-06, version 1.5* I love this app. The primary way I use it is in research and study. When I find important information in a Kindle book I'm reading on my iPad, I take a screenshot; load the screenshot in Mobile OCR, convert it to text, and email it to my PC for inclusion in work I'm doing. ### 5/5 — Pretty good *2015-08-17* I've tried a lot of these apps. Most don't work well, or at all. This one seems to be pretty reliable. It performs about as well as OCR apps costing many time the price. ### 5/5 — Mr *2014-12-22, version 1.5* OCR is what it says and OCR is what it does.......brilliantly ! We'll Done ### 5/5 — Impressed *2014-12-02* Mobile OCR allows me to scan pdf and convert to text which I can copy to Pages, etc. Formatting initially disappears, but reappears when the text is copied and pasted into word processing app. I have tried it with some very challenging formatting and text styles, including italics and small print. It handled all very well. It does require wifi to convert text. Only negative is that the 5 daily credits do not seem to replenish, so it is not very useful as a free app (unless you uninstall and reinstall after 5 scans). However, unlimited scans seem to be a great investment. Customer support responded quickly and generously to my inquiry about their guarantee. ### 5/5 — What I was looking for *2014-10-04, version 1.5* Good app, suits my needs perfectly, and would recommend to everyone looking for an OCR app ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2014-09-07, version 1.5* This is a really useful app. Does exactly what I hoped it would, simply, intuitively and straightforwardly. I have this on my iPad and it's a breeze...try and you too will be impressed. ### 5/5 — Great, simple, fast! *2014-08-04, version 1.5* Worked right away, no setup. Fast and accurate. ### 5/5 — Mr *2014-07-09, version 1.5* Exceeded my expectations. So much better than the others I tried. Very little fixing up of copied text. ### 5/5 — The Best OCR *2014-06-15, version 1.5* Easy to use and convent !! Very accurate !!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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