Scan & Scribe vs Text Extractor OCR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scan & Scribe
Convert printed documents and handwritten notes into editable text. Extract text from images, correct errors, and then copy, save, listen to, or share your content. Supports offline OCR for both typed and handwritten text.
- Convert printed and handwritten text
- Offline OCR engines
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Copy, save, and share extracted text
- Image cropping and skew correction
- Review and correct extracted text
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Using Scan & Scribe you can convert your Printed/Typed Docs and Handwritten Notes (written in unconnected writing) to editable document that you can Copy, Save, Listen or Share via Facebook, email (Outlook, Gmail etc.), WhatsApp, Dropbox, OneDrive etc. Its stand out feature is its separate offline OCR engines for Printed and Handwritten contents. It is simple to use: 1. Take a camera shot of docs or handwritten notes (or load it from gallery). 2. Crop and/or remove skew in the intended text in the snapshot. 3. For text extraction from the cropped image, remember to select Handwritten option for hand written texts and Typed option for typed/printed ones. 4. Review the extracted passage, make corrections if required. Incorrectly converted words will be highlighted. 5. You can now convert the text to speech for listening or save it for future use. 6. You can also share it via Facebook, email (Outlook, Gmail etc.), WhatsApp, Dropbox, OneDrive etc. Remember: 1. If image’s text direction is not from left-to-right, rotate the image. 2. All other things should be cropped except the desired text passage to be converted. In case of snapshot from smart phone camera: 1. Take desired snapshot i.e. paper, receipt etc. in bright environment. 2. While capturing image, avoid shadow of the phone and/or of any other object. 3. Properly focus the image in bright environment. Turn on flash if required. At present, app does not properly support following features: 1. Pictures of text on the notebooks having lined pages or ruled paper. 2. Pictures having multi-color background. 3. Images of curved pages. 4. Languages other than English. Acknowledgement: This app is the result of Pakistan's National ICT R&D Funded project "Smart Intelligence - An OCR Engine for Android and iOS Smart Phones" executed by Abasyn University Islamabad's Renzym OCR Research Group.
Text Extractor OCR
This app uses optical character recognition to extract text from images and documents, including handwritten content. It offers high accuracy and supports multiple languages, with features like sharing and cropping extracted text.
- Extract text from images and PDFs
- Supports handwritten text
- High accuracy (99%)
- Share extracted text
- Crop text from images
- Supports dark mode
- Multi-language support
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Text Extractor (OCR) will help to extract text of any language from document or an image. It supports handwritten images/documents as well. √ Extract text from image, PDF √ Ability to share the extracted the text √ 99% Accuracy level √ Easy to extract from a hardcopy document using camera √ Ability to extract from multi page document √ Easy to crop text content from an Image √ Supports Darkmode √ Support most of the languages
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Text Extractor OCR at 5.0 against Scan & Scribe's 2.0. Text Extractor OCR also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 13%). Scan & Scribe's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Text Extractor OCR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Scan & Scribe asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text Extractor OCR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Scan & Scribe's written reviews are positive against 50% of Text Extractor OCR's.
Scan & Scribe ships an update every 3 weeks, Text Extractor OCR every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scan & Scribe | Text Extractor OCR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yasir Javed | Bhuvaneswari Sekar |
Customer experience
Scan & Scribe
Text Extractor OCR
In-app purchases
Scan & Scribe
No in-app purchases
Text Extractor OCR
- One Month Premium$0.991 Month
- One Year Premium$7.991 Year
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