Comparison

Perfect OCR vs Obsidian Web Clipper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Obsidian Web Clipper

Save web content directly to your personal knowledge base for offline access. Organize research, recipes, articles, and more with customizable templates and smart triggers. Your data is private, secure, and stored locally in durable Markdown format.

Highlights
  • Clip any web content
  • Select page content or extract main article
  • Customizable templates for metadata
  • Smart triggers for automatic template application
  • Seamless integration with Obsidian vault
  • Save as local Markdown files
  • Offline access to clipped content
Features
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Bring the web to your personal knowledge base. Save content to your Obsidian vault so you always have access to it, even offline. Obsidian is secure, private, and designed around durable open formats that allows you to preserve your data for the long term. Whether you're researching for a project, saving recipes, bookmarking travel destinations, or collecting inspiring articles, the Obsidian Web Clipper helps you organize your ideas. - Clip anything: From news articles and blog posts to recipes, product pages, and research papers — if it's on the web, you can save it. - Select page content: Clip entire pages, selected text, or let the clipper intelligently extract just the main content. - Customizable templates: Create tailored templates to automatically extract metadata from web pages. Perfect for academics, movie buffs, book lovers, or anyone who wants structured notes. - Smart triggers: Set up rules to automatically apply the right template based on the website you're clipping from. - Seamless integration: all your clips flow directly into Obsidian, in the vault and folder of your choice. As with everything Obsidian, Web Clipper is designed to protect your privacy, and give you control over your data. - No lock-in: All your clips are saved in clean, durable, portable Markdown files — no proprietary formats. - Offline access: your saved clips are saved locally, and always at your fingertips, with or without an internet connection. - 100% private: all your clipped content is stored locally in your Obsidian vault. Your thoughts are yours. Obsidian helps you create connections and links between your notes so you can organize your thoughts. You can create links between everything — ideas, articles, lists, locations, books — anything you can put in a note, you can link to other notes.

Screenshots

Perfect OCR4 screens
Obsidian Web Clipper1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Obsidian Web Clipper at Free against Perfect OCR's $0.99. Obsidian Web Clipper also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). Perfect OCR's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download; Perfect OCR costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Perfect OCR holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 118 and 98 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Perfect OCR's written reviews are positive against 69% of Obsidian Web Clipper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Perfect OCR ships an update every 2 months, Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Perfect OCR versus Obsidian Web Clipper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerfect OCRObsidian Web Clipper
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (118 ratings) — better4.4 (98 ratings)
Positive reviews64.5% of reviews68.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings118 — better98
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS1615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPiksoft Inc.Dynalist Inc.

Customer experience

Perfect OCR

All ratings118 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews409 reviews
Positive64.5%
Neutral8.1%
Negative27.4%

Obsidian Web Clipper

All ratings98 ratings
Positive82.7%
Neutral4.1%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive68.8%
Neutral9.6%
Negative21.6%

User reviews

Perfect OCR

From 118 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Accurate OCR
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 📤 Useful for scanning and emailing documents
  • 🔍 Good for capturing text from books and documents
  • 💡 Helpful for students and professionals

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and low memory issues on older devices
  • 🔍 Struggles with handwriting, low quality images, and complex layouts
  • 🔍 Limited language support
  • 🔍 Occasional errors in OCR output

Obsidian Web Clipper

From 98 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fantastic web clipper
  • 👍 Seamless and light on the system
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 👍 Powerful and customizable
  • 🚀 Works flawlessly

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Does not work on Mac
  • 🐛 Takes over Obsidian startup on iOS
  • 🐛 Extension not showing on macOS
  • 🐛 Complicated to use, not working on important websites

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

Obsidian Web Clipper

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Defining a file path with a subfolder does not work
  • Doesn't wait for page load, resulting in missing content

Requested features

2 requests
  • Immersive reading experience with ability to hide top and bottom bars
  • Autofill possible vaults for clipping

In-app purchases

None

Perfect OCR

No in-app purchases

None

Obsidian Web Clipper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Perfect OCR free?
Perfect OCR costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Obsidian Web Clipper free?
Obsidian Web Clipper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Perfect OCR or Obsidian Web Clipper?
Perfect OCR is rated higher. Perfect OCR averages 4.7 out of 5 from 118 ratings, while Obsidian Web Clipper averages 4.4 from 98 ratings.
Do Perfect OCR or Obsidian Web Clipper have ads?
Neither Perfect OCR nor Obsidian Web Clipper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Perfect OCR or Obsidian Web Clipper?
Perfect OCR ships an update every 2 months, and Obsidian Web Clipper every 9 days. Most recently, Perfect OCR was updated on October 16, 2026 and Obsidian Web Clipper on October 13, 2026.

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