Text Extractor OCR vs Picture to text
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Picture to text
This app scans images and PDF documents to extract text. It includes a rich text editor for formatting and allows saving notes as PDFs. Easily convert visual information into editable text.
- Scan text from images (JPEG, PNG)
- Scan text from PDF documents
- Extracts handwriting to text
- Inbuilt rich text editor
- Save reformatted text as PDF
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Are you looking for an app which can scan and extract text? If yes, then look no further. Presenting the perfect scanner app which scan text from any source. It can scan images of any format (jpeg, png) and also scans pdf doc to extract text. The app also comes with an inbuilt rich text editor so that you can format the extracted text based on your style need. Not only that, you can also save the reformatted text or note in the form of pdf. So what are you waiting for? Download the app now! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Picture to text at none against Text Extractor OCR's shown. Picture to text also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 17 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Text Extractor OCR's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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 and Picture to text sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Text Extractor OCR against 5.0 for Picture to text. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively.
Text Extractor OCR ships an update every 17 months, Picture to text every 6 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Text Extractor OCR | Picture to text |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bhuvaneswari Sekar | Nitish Rokade |
Customer experience
Text Extractor OCR
Picture to text
In-app purchases
Text Extractor OCR
- One Month Premium$0.991 Month
- One Year Premium$7.991 Year
Picture to text
- Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$14.991 Year
Questions
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