# Text OCR Search — Web search text with a camera

> Web search text with a camera (iPhone/iPad app by Masanori Katsuta.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-ocr-search/id1476228872 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Masanori Katsuta](https://appshunter.io/developer/320172788)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: $0.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 12.0 · 76 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Released: 2019-08-28
- Data updated: 2026-07-28
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/text-ocr-search/id1476228872/reviews.md

## What is Text OCR Search?

TV news and program captions, newspaper and magazine articles, billboards and advertisements you see on the street, URLs, phone numbers, store names, names...
Have you ever taken a photo with your smartphone and wanted to search it online right away?

That's when this app comes in handy.
Use your smartphone camera to take a picture of any text that catches your eye.
"Text recognition" allows you to search the internet in one go.
There is no need for the troublesome work of starting up your smartphone's browser and typing in characters one by one.

You can also use photos and images saved in your camera roll.

Recognized text is also copied to the clipboard at the same time, so you can paste the text into other apps such as the Notes app.

## Chart rankings

- #191 in Top Paid · Photo & Video (US App Store)


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.5 — 2024-03-25

Fixed some conversion mistakes.

### 1.0.4 — 2024-03-21

・Added privacy manifests.
・Fixed minor bugs.

### 1.0.3 — 2023-10-31

Added image import via file sharing.
Add image paste from the web etc.

### 1.0.2 — 2020-09-16

Fixed a bug in the orientation of images loaded from the photo library

### 1.0.1 — 2019-08-28

No release notes.

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All apps by Masanori Katsuta: https://appshunter.io/developer/320172788

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