suttoread

Still typing up printed lists by hand? Attendance sheets, club rosters, event check-in lists, handouts. When names only exist on paper, getting them into a spreadsheet has meant typing them one by one. Photo-to-text apps don't help much: a long list won't fit in one shot, lines go missing, and Müller comes back as Muller, so you end up checking every row anyway. With suttoread, slide your iPhone slowly down the page and it reads the list line by line, however long it is. HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM A PHOTO? - Length: a list too long for one shot is read as you keep sliding. - Size: fit a whole page into one photo and the letters get small, so accents and fine strokes blur away. suttoread reads close to the paper, so every line stays large. - Repetition: a photo is read once. While you slide, each line is read many times, and lines whose readings disagree are flagged. - Gaps and doubles: it follows the rows as it reads, so skipped and repeated lines are flagged too. You only check the marked rows. FIX AGAINST THE ORIGINAL Any uncertain row sits next to its image from the page, so you can compare and correct it in seconds. STRAIGHT INTO YOUR SPREADSHEET Save or share a CSV, or copy tab-separated text and paste it into Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. There is an option that keeps accents intact in Excel on Windows. NAMES NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE Everything is read on your iPhone. No images or names are sent anywhere, so it works for lists you can't upload to the cloud. WHAT IT READS - Names with accents and other marks, spelled as printed (Müller, François, Łukasz) - Japanese, written horizontally or vertically - Just the column you want on multi-column pages - Lists split over several columns or pages, joined into one (Pro)