Metext | Text scanner | OCR vs Text Extractor OCR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Metext | Text scanner | OCR
Effortlessly extract text from images using advanced OCR technology. Scan photos from your gallery or directly from your camera, then edit, copy, or share the recognized text.
- Extract text from gallery images
- Extract text from camera
- Precise OCR algorithm
- Select specific text areas
- Edit and review extracted text
- Copy and share text
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Extracting text from images is a common problem. This app solves the pain to copy text manually... It does it for you! The main features are: - Extract text from image taken from your gallery. - Extract text from the camera. - Our OCR algorithm is very precise. We take from the state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition software. - You can select only the interesting parts from the extracted text. - Edit, review the extracted text. - Share or copy the text.
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 in-app purchases: Metext | Text scanner | OCR at none against Text Extractor OCR's 2. Metext | Text scanner | OCR also leads on update cadence (every 8 months vs every 17 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Metext | Text scanner | OCR asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Metext | Text scanner | OCR against 5.0 for Text Extractor OCR. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.
Metext | Text scanner | OCR ships an update every 8 months, Text Extractor OCR every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Metext | Text scanner | OCR | Text Extractor OCR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrea Minetti | Bhuvaneswari Sekar |
Customer experience
Metext | Text scanner | OCR
Text Extractor OCR
In-app purchases
Metext | Text scanner | OCR
No in-app purchases
Text Extractor OCR
- One Month Premium$0.991 Month
- One Year Premium$7.991 Year
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