# OCR Scanner with LEADTOOLS SDK — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of OCR Scanner with LEADTOOLS SDK by LEAD Technologies, Inc., rated 4.30/5 from 394 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ocr-scanner-with-leadtools-sdk/id601177271/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ocr-scanner-with-leadtools-sdk/id601177271.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 284 · 4★ 39 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 49 ## What do users think of OCR Scanner with LEADTOOLS SDK? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and accurate OCR recognition - 💰 Completely free with no ads - 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface - 🌍 Supports multiple languages - 📄 Converts images to editable text efficiently - 🎯 Works well for document scanning and PDF creation - 🔊 Built-in text-to-speech functionality - ⚡ On-device processing (no internet required) - 📋 Handles tables and complex layouts - ✨ Excellent for accessibility needs **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes on multiple page processing - 🔤 Inconsistent text extraction accuracy - ❌ Struggles with handwriting recognition - 🔄 Batch upload functionality missing - 🔀 Text separation and formatting issues - 🔢 Misrecognizes numbers (0 as O, etc.) - 📱 Compatibility issues with iOS updates - 🖼️ Problems with rotated or angled images - 🔗 Difficulty copying extracted text - ⚙️ Language selection not functioning properly **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes after scanning photos in batch mode - Screenshots and Recents options disappeared after update - Cannot select text to copy after extraction - Share function copies image instead of text - Incompatibility with iOS 14 and iOS 13 - Causes .docx email attachments to fail - Crashes at 'finding zones' step on iPad - Language selection buttons non-functional - App fails to load images from photo library - Upside-down text interpretation errors **Most requested features** - Batch upload multiple images at once - Edit extracted text within the app - Add Persian/Farsi language support - Add Arabic language support - Improved app icon design - Better handling of multi-page documents - Auto-detect and correct separated words - Direct Microsoft Word export - Better abbreviation recognition (tsp, TBS) - Learning capability for OCR improvements ## Newest reviews (12 of 50) ### 3/5 — Don’t Know *2020-10-04, version 6.1.2* I used “”StitchPics” which sticker screenshots i took, the screenshots were of a digital document sample so the image Is legible and pretty clear, this app cannot pick up on the text present which got my hopes down. Oh well!! Guess I am typing everything from scratch ### 4/5 — Love it but needs minor fixes *2020-05-25, version 6.1.1* I really love the app, but when scanning recipes for some reason it omits tsp and TBS every single time. Have to manually add them back in. Also it changes numbers like 60 to 6o (has an o instead of a zero) again, I have to fix this manually. Would be nice if it could recognize numbers that have zeros. Otherwise it works great! ### 4/5 — 95% accurate *2020-01-13, version 6.1.1* Works pretty great except can’t convert straight into Microsoft Word. Using medium to transfer works but leaves weird format you have to correct ### 4/5 — Great, simple, confusing *2019-12-30, version 6.1.1* LEAD did something great with this app. It's super simple, not over bloated, and does what it says it does... ...mostly. So far 2 out of 3 things scanned and OCR'ed to text perfectly. The third item is rotated by 180 degrees each time I try to OCR it leading to the wrong interpretation (for some reason it thinks the text is upside down. This is a Walmart receipt to be more specific) I've tried manually rotating it but it seems to agree that upside down is the right side up to OCR... Also, if we have the option to have multiple pages, is it possible to be able to add multiple images in one go instead of one at a time? I don't know how hard that is to do, so I wouldn't knock them on that. Thank you for the great app! ### 4/5 — Pretty good so far *2019-02-15, version 5.9.4* It does what I need it to. It converts words on paper to digital format. By that I mean I can send the scans I take on the app to my iCloud, and then I can copy and paste the words onto another document on my computer. That is what I tried to do for a long time on the “Notes” app for iPhone, but it doesn’t work. “Notes” app says it can scan, but it really just takes a picture of the words. When I scan, I need to be able to copy and paste the actual WORDS of the paper, not just a picture of the paper. I like this app because it gives me the words in digital. It is not perfect, however, sometimes it s e p a r a t e s e a c h w o r d l i k e t h i s a n d i t i s a n n o y i n g t o h a v e t o f i x. It also does not get punctuation correct all the time but other than that it is pretty good. I bet it will improve in the future. I think it could improve in one way by being more intelligent. It could “find” words in text that it thinks is separated (see above) and connect the letters. It could also work on p-utting words together that have been sepa-rated by the column of the page, as demo-nstrated here. (My book has lots of these) I am very grateful that it is a free app, however, so I can not really complain much. Thank you for making this app. ### 3/5 — Please make it easier to upload *2018-12-27, version 5.9.4* Please make your app easier to upload multiple pages of a document at once. I love this app but that is why I can’t give it 5 stars. It takes forever to get multiple documents uploaded. I wish I could select all pictures first then upload and rearrange the order or something like other OCR Apps. Change this and the app will be the best and I’ll give it 5 stars! ### 5/5 — Best OCR app *2018-10-09, version 5.9.2* This app is really helpful for me. Being dyslexic i use this app for books i want to read. ### 5/5 — It Is Amazing *2018-09-29, version 5.9.2* I tried this App expecting nothing as what it turned out to deliver. It takes a while to learn how to use it, but is is somewhat intuitive and it works like a charm. AND it can solve the problem of editing a PDF file if you need to do so. ### 5/5 — Very, very good, but not perfect *2018-08-12, version 5.9.1* I didn’t expect much for a free app, but I was pleasantly surprised. Quick on-device OCR is very good. However, it does not learn from its mistakes. It has some problems with some italic letter combinations, and there is no way to teach it otherwise. As indicated in the description, this app is a demo, … an extremely functional and useful demo. There are no ads to interrupt your work. ### 2/5 — Doesn’t really work *2018-05-25, version 5.7.2* I would have posted a quote of how horribly bad the OCR functionality is, but when I tried to copy&paste text out of the app I couldn’t. So even if the OCR had been flawless it would still be useless without the ability to copy the scanned text out from the app... ### 5/5 — It’s very helpful *2018-04-30, version 5.7.2* I love this app and the update is even better ### 5/5 — It speaks too! *2018-03-17, version 5.7.1* I was looking for a decent OCR app so I could scan a page, then take the text into another text-to-speech app. But this app has a "speak" option, so I don't have to switch between apps. Great app! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Was 3/4 stars *2020-10-07, version 6.1.2* Non unusable after its update or ios 14. Normally one option for grabbing a photo is Screenshots. Gone. Another was Recents. Gone. Worse: I can’t get text! Before, after extraction, I could select a section of text to copy. Now when I hold done my finger I get a Share option only. But selecting that 1) requires sending it and 2) puts a copy of the IMAGE, not text in the doc. Useless. The functionality is completely gone. ### 1/5 — Can't select another language *2020-05-13, version 6.1.1* I went to use this OCR in Russian, but it does not work, even when downloaded the Russian language. I press it but it does nothing. Please fix. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2019-04-22, version 6.0.1* This crashes as soon as it reaches the "finding zones" step on my iPad air. Crashed on my iPhone too after I scanned just a few pages. 😡 ### 1/5 — OCR is awful *2018-04-28, version 5.7.2* This app is useless. All it does is let me rotate a photo. iOS photo library already allows you the ability to rotate. I thought this app would help extract text. It does not do that. It also has no directions. ### 1/5 — Scanner that doesn't scan! *2018-04-04, version 5.7.1* I know my handwriting isn't the best, but it's legible and this app did nothing but scan it into jibberish! Great easy to use app which is why it has one star, but doesn't do the one purpose it has in life. ### 1/5 — Cannot extract text *2018-02-28, version 5.6.0* Clean page, flat, clear light, clear print... the app "extracted" what looked more like HTML than English. Don't waste your time. ### 1/5 — Dead app *2017-12-31, version 5.5.1* Interesting - as far as I can tell this app does nothing. I’ve tried loading scans from my photos and have tried to take a picture from the app. Neither method loads a document into the app. I think the app is broken, at least for the iPad. I’d sure love to have a working version... ### 2/5 — use to work well not now *2021-08-15, version 6.1.2* i do not know what happened, it used to do a great job of scanning a series of photos and convert them in to a pdf with photo over text with out a hiccup. now it will not complete the job the app just exit after it is done scanning photo. i tried un/reinstalling still will not work will do one photo at a time but that is not the reason i need the app ### 2/5 — Bug with iOS 13 upgrade *2019-10-21, version 6.0.1* This product causes problems with .docx attachments. I discovered that email attachments with docx extension would not open. After 3 or 4 system reloads I narrowed it down to this app. Once I removed it the attachments open normally. ### 2/5 — Persian language *2019-05-05, version 6.0.1* Add edit option to remove or add text Add persian or farsi language. Need better icon design. Thanks. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Works well AND it’s free *2021-03-02, version 6.1.2* I used this app to scan a few pages of documents and convert to text to further edit on my laptop. (For best results, I recommend using lots of light on documents you’re scanning, and using invert and 3D deskew before converting.) Although no app does the job of OCR perfectly, this one gets close enough for further editing, so saving lots of time transcribing docs manually via typing, PLUS it’s free (did I mention that it’s free?) ### 5/5 — Finally a good one *2020-08-09, version 6.1.1* This is the first image to text app that is ACTUALLY free AND works. 👍 ### 5/5 — Fantastic! A MUST-have App *2020-06-06, version 6.1.1* The OCR Scanner is very fast and accurate. And did I mentioned it works for multiple languages. The OCR Scanner app gives you a simple and efficient way to capture that interesting poem, quote, or small article you come across without having to painstakingly write it down by hand. You can Camera Scan existing pages or import from the Photo Library. The app will extract the text from a picture and convert it to an editable text file. You can copy and paste the extracted text to an iMessage, Notes, email or word processing app and make edits/corrections or reformatting as necessary. It also Has a Tables option to scan tables. Download it now! :-) ### 5/5 — Finally!! *2020-05-26, version 6.1.1* I’ve been looking for an app to do exactly what this app does perfectly, recognize images with text and convert them to pdf, also PDFs that are images and recognize the text. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Very competent OCR for free. *2020-04-27, version 6.1.1* A service to the ‘rest of us’. ### 5/5 — Works great! *2020-01-30, version 6.1.1* I use this to extract hashtags from instagram. Because you often can’t copy paste text from IG but I want to remember what the top tags are for a search. I just screenshot the page on my phone, run it through this scanner, and then copy paste to my notepad. I have been getting way more hits and followers on IG ever since using this to capture the top tags for a search. ### 5/5 — Ocr scanner *2019-11-01, version 6.0.1* Very good app can you please add arabic language to the ocr. ### 5/5 — Unpretentious and Handy Utility *2019-05-29, version 6.0.1* I’m still getting the hang of it. But I really like what it’s enabled me to do! ### 5/5 — If Another OCR App is More Accurate, I Haven’t Found It *2019-02-25, version 5.9.4* I want to leave a review for this app because I regularly compare the output of various OCR apps (paid and free) in IOS and OSX and this free app has been consistently the best. I depend on OCR apps and none are perfect, as some reviews highlight, but I have seen none better. Thank you. ### 5/5 — 👍🏻 *2019-01-15, version 5.9.4* Free app! Gets the job done and relatively easy to use --- *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 2026-06-10.*