Inferior to OCR built into photos, spamware
Baffled by the positive reviews here. The OCR in Text Grabber is barely adequate, and changes to the privacy policy are suspicious.
First, just take a photo with your phone on iOS 16 and tap the icon bottom left to capture OCR text more reliably than this app.
Second, this would still be an okay app as an alternative to iOS native OCR… if it weren’t so privacy invasive. The app doesn’t need it to run, but will beg for your email, permission to send data to third party advertising partners, permission to access all photos (which also provides the geolocation history of every photo you took). Hard pass.
First, just take a photo with your phone on iOS 16 and tap the icon bottom left to capture OCR text more reliably than this app.
Second, this would still be an okay app as an alternative to iOS native OCR… if it weren’t so privacy invasive. The app doesn’t need it to run, but will beg for your email, permission to send data to third party advertising partners, permission to access all photos (which also provides the geolocation history of every photo you took). Hard pass.
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Great application!!
I love this app I have been using it for several years now. It really save me a lot of time whenever I have to write something up. I highly recommend it.
Love to Use!
I love how easy this app makes it to have text that I would need to type in and instead it types it for me! Very easy go use and it’s my go to for capturing text. Thanks for making my copying and pasting life easier.
It’s nice but overkill for some users
It’s pretty disappointing that if you want to use it as a simple text to speech app and just use it as a translator occasionally... you can’t.
It will never just read the text in it’s original language. It will give you an error message that it must be translated into another language. I got this because I already read a lot and wanted to give myself a break. But alas, it won’t read English to English, etc.
It will never just read the text in it’s original language. It will give you an error message that it must be translated into another language. I got this because I already read a lot and wanted to give myself a break. But alas, it won’t read English to English, etc.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your feedback. We would be glad to make your routine with the application better. Please specify the issue in more detail and write us a letter to mobile_support@abbyy.com. ABBYY Customer Support
Who knows what the rent actually is?
I had a very simple thing to scan but not even translate and it worked great. There was a little glitch with the letter "u" (which nowhere spells the word "you" unless you want your [please, don't grunt "ur"]writing to appear to be regressing toward primitive humanity) but that's common with photo to text apps. I have no idea what the rent actually is … I don't know why developers think we enjoy being screwed by them and not even being clear what it will cost.
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