Perfect OCR vs Perspectiva
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Perfect OCR
Scan and convert documents into editable text with high accuracy. This app offers advanced image processing for clear scans, supports multiple languages for OCR, and allows easy sharing of documents as PDFs or text files. All processing is done offline for enhanced privacy.
- High-accuracy OCR for documents
- Advanced image processing for clear scans
- Email documents as PDF with text or image
- Offline processing for data privacy
- Multi-language OCR support
- Automatic document edge detection
- SureScan mode for jitter-free images
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Perfect OCR gives you both a general purpose OCR app and a document scanner. Now you can scan and OCR your letter-size or A4 documents with an accuracy of 90% or more, edit, copy and store the recognized text, and e-mail your documents as PDF files with text, SINGLE page image, or both together! NOTE: To ensure the advertised results it is important that you follow the OCR TIPS below (or in the app's help). Perfect OCR scans your documents using advanced image-processing algorithms to eliminate uneven lighting and shadows and improve contrast. The result is the clearest and most readable scans possible from the iPhone's camera. Perfect OCR also offers SureScan, our proprietary scanning mode that delivers sharper images with less jitter or smear. Our unique "Email to myself" feature lets you send documents to a predefined address, or even upload them to an online storage service like Evernote or Box.net, with a single tap. Uploading documents to online services via email is fast, secure, and can be done even if you're temporarily off line. Refer to app help for details. All processing happens on your iPhone, and the confidentiality of your data is never compromised. There is also no subscription fee, and no Internet access is needed to scan documents or run OCR. PERFECT OCR FEATURES: • Letter-size or A4 page OCR with accuracy of 95% for model 3GS, 98% for iPhone 4, and up to 90% for 3G • OCR languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Ukrainian. • Email multipage PDFs with text, SINGLE page image, or both • Automatic document edge detection and perspective correction • Multipage text recognition with accuracy indicator • Text editing and copy-to-clipboard operations • Built-in OCR text archive with file sharing via iTunes • "Email to myself" feature • Email text and image files (.TXT + .JPG), or save image to library • Searchable PDFs with document images (single page) • Preserves simple text formatting • Option to auto-remove line breaks • SureScan mode for jitter-free scans • Simple yet powerful user interface • Instant brightness, rotation, and color controls • Compact attachments with adjustable size IMPORTANT TIPS FOR OCR: • Make sure your document is flat and well lit. Hold your iPhone still while shooting. • Always scan documents using "SureScan 3x" mode. • Glossy paper may not work well (avoid glare). • When scanning books keep the pages as flat as possible and your iPhone parallel to the surface. • Perfect OCR cannot recognize handwritten, very large text or spreadsheets correctly. • Make sure to select the right language for OCR in app settings. We're constantly improving Perfect OCR, and we value our customers' opinions and feedback. Please contact us at support@turboscanapp.com. If you have a problem with our software, please contact us before submitting a comment to the app store. We can solve most of the problems, but we cannot respond to comments.
Perspectiva
This app offers advanced calendar visualization with extensive graphic customization, event mapping, and time usage charting. It supports multiple calendar services and provides various export options for both data and graphics.
- Graphic customization of calendar and chart views
- Event mapping with location integration
- Time usage charts and event logging
- Support for macOS Calendar, iCloud, and CalDAV
- Multiple calendar views (List, Day, Week, Month, Year, Charts)
- Exportable graphics in PDF format
- CSV/TSV export of event logs
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Perspectiva is a calendar app providing extensive graphic customization, event mapping, time usage charts, keyword filtering, time calculations, event log and graphics exporting. Perspectiva displays macOS Calendar, iCloud and CalDAV events on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch. Perspectiva features several views including List, Day, Week, Month, Year, Pie Chart and Bar Chart. The tool bar provides Display, Calculations, Actions, Filter, Add Event and Help views. The event activities popover includes Mail, Message, Bluesky, Facebook, Copy, Edit, View and Location. Views and Navigation • List, Day, Week, Month, Year, Pie Chart and Bar Chart • Use swipe and tap gestures to navigate to different time views • Navigation is animated to illustrate changing context • All views are printable via AirPrint to AirPrint compatible printers • All views are exportable in graphic PDF format via e-mail • To hide or show the toolbar at the top with a two-finger tap or tap on the triangle in the upper right corner Map Integration (Event Mapping Level 1 In-App Purchase required) • Map view helps display and select event locations on the map • Perspectiva supports both street address and coordinate location formats • Coordinate locations can be selected while offline with available cached map data • Add Event and Set Location options include With Contact, At Current Address, and At Current Coordinate • Display pins for multiple events on map • Enter a contact name in event Location field and Perspectiva will look up the street address for map lookups if available Graphic Customization of Views • Perspectiva supports Dark Mode in iOS 13 or later, and in-app 'dark mode' in earlier versions of iOS • Use pinch touch gestures to instantly change the size of the text • Customize graphic elements for beautiful calendar and chart views and export • Customize text font, size, color and opacity for event text, titles, and day numbers • Customize layout of Day and Week views with Time Blocks or Text Listing view modes • Customize background color, background image and opacity • For new background images, choose from built-in images, use photos from your Photo Library, or take a picture with camera • Print or export PDF format Calendar Support • Perspectiva is compatible with macOS Calendar events, Google, Yahoo and other CalDAV calendars • Create new calendars and edit calendar titles and colors • Use the Filter to customize which calendars are visible • Search calendars for text, and export the results if desired • User setting for First Weekday: Sunday or Monday • The Now indicator shows the current time location in the Day and Week views • Add Event activities include At Current Time, At Next Hour, With Contact, At Current Address, At Current Coordinate. Export • Copy filtered event log text, with or without calculations, to the clipboard for use in other apps • E-mail filtered event logs as CSV (Comma-Separated Values) or TSV (Tab-Separated Values) files • Export view graphics as PDF format files via e-mail • Use Copy Text, E-mail, Message, Bluesky and Facebook to share single events Essential Additional Features • Customize the tab bar at the bottom on the iPhone or iPod touch to use your favorite views • Perspectiva Help displays several chapters of information for all of Perspectiva's elements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Perfect OCR at 4.7 against Perspectiva's 4.0. Perfect OCR also leads on price ($0.99 vs $9.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Perspectiva's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On ads, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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
Perfect OCR costs $0.99 and Perspectiva $9.99 up front. Perspectiva sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Perfect OCR asks for nothing beyond the download.
Perfect OCR holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Perfect OCR has 118 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Perfect OCR's written reviews are positive against 50% of Perspectiva's.
Perfect OCR ships an update every 2 months, Perspectiva monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Perfect OCR | Perspectiva |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (118 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 118 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piksoft Inc. | Imaja |
Customer experience
Perfect OCR
Perspectiva
Bugs and requests
Perfect OCR
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on iOS 4 devices
- Issues with image capture and orientation
- Inconsistent OCR performance
Requested features
5 requests- Support for more languages
- Improved OCR accuracy
- Ability to process multiple pages at once
- Integration with cloud storage and productivity apps
- Spell check and editing tools
Perspectiva
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Perfect OCR
No in-app purchases
Perspectiva
- Event Mapping$2.99
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