Text Capture vs OCR Book Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Capture
Easily extract text from your camera in real-time. This app allows you to edit, copy, share, or listen to captured text. It functions entirely offline, ensuring your data remains private.
- Real-time text capture from camera
- Offline functionality
- Edit captured text
- Copy text to clipboard
- Share text to other apps
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Translate text
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Text Capture allows you to capture text from your device's camera. Just point the camera, see the text in real time and capture it by pressing the Capture button! Text Capture works 100% offline protecting your privacy and the content of your scans as your scanned data never leaves your device. After capturing text you can: - Edit - Copy to clipboard - Share on other Apps - Hear it out loud - Translate Text * Text Capture works on any latin alphabet text * Text to speech and Translation works for text written on the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkis.
OCR Book Scanner
Easily scan printed and handwritten text from your device's camera or photos. Leverage advanced AI to proofread extracted content, minimizing errors. Organize, edit, and share your scanned text seamlessly.
- Scan text from camera
- Scan text from photos
- Recognize handwritten text
- AI-powered text proofreading
- Organize scans into text files/folders
- iCloud syncing
- Edit, save, and share text
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Book Scanner makes scanning printed and handwritten text a breeze. Let ChatGPT with GPT-5.6 proofread scanned text to minimize errors. It supports most Latin and Cyrillic-based languages, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, and many others. Scan a page with a single tap. Scan as many pages as you need while ChatGPT fixes scan errors in the background. Book Scanner does not place annoying ads over your scans to distract you from your work. Features: • Extract texts from Camera • Extract texts from photos • Recognise handwritten text • Proofread the extracted text by ChatGPT (GPT-5.6) • Organise your scans into text files and folders either on the device or in iCloud • Edit / save / share the scanned text • iCloud syncing across your devices Privacy Policy: https://www.gigafluent.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.gigafluent.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OCR Book Scanner at 80% against Text Capture's 42%. OCR Book Scanner also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Text Capture's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (2.7K vs 10). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and OCR Book Scanner sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
OCR Book Scanner holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Capture has 2.7K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Text Capture's written reviews are positive against 80% of OCR Book Scanner's.
Text Capture ships an update weekly, OCR Book Scanner monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Capture | OCR Book Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.8% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. | Gigafluent Ltd |
Customer experience
Text Capture
OCR Book Scanner
Bugs and requests
Text Capture
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to restore previous purchases
- Fails to recognize certain languages/scripts
- Inconsistent text capture quality
Requested features
3 requests- Add ability to rotate/crop captured images
- Improve accuracy for handwritten/non-standard text
- Integrate with note-taking/productivity apps
OCR Book Scanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Capture
- Premium$3.99
OCR Book Scanner
- Unlimited words (1 Week)$4.997 Days
- Unlimited words (1 Month)$7.991 Month
- Unlimited words (1 Month)$14.991 Month
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- Unlimited words (1 Year)$49.991 Year
- Unlimited words (1 Year)$119.991 Year
- 2K Words Pack$1.99
- 3,000 Words Pack$1.99
- 20K Words Pack$9.99
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- 30,000 Words Pack$9.99
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