This supposed to be an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool, but it DOESN’T recognize ANY text. I try all kinds, styles, sizes, lighting conditions, everything and it wasn't able to "read" a single time. Good concept, but it doesn't work. The worst part is that it's complete misrepresented by the developer and don't even try to contact them, zero response, and no support at all!!!

I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about. I use an iPod so I can't validate how well it works with the camera. but the recognition is fine using the photo screenshot feature. it does mistake some charactures if font is odd,small or fuzzy. but does recognize most if not all of a phrase. whithout tweaking you can not copy & past into some IM or email service. I was able to get around it though. the app creater did email me back and helped correct this concern. the price is alittle high,I wish it had better photo editing cababilities inside the app. other than that cool app. OCR on iPhone/iPod!!

I've only tried two samples so far, from a newspaper that was admittedly not even lit very well, and my anecdotal assessment of accuracy is about 95-97%. Does not require uploading and submitting via email - the OCR'd text can be on your clipboard in just a few seconds, ready to paste into the appropriate app. Love it!

Update is improvement. Good work. FYI: all tests are taken from a printed book in "standard" type.

This is a cool app! I works pretty much as intended, with the only caveat that if you take a picture of text in landscape mode you have to flip it so that the thing can figure out what it's looking at. I think this may be what one of the reviewers was having trouble with. Nearly perfect accuracy.

This app does not work. I've tried it over and over for the last hour and it won't recognize any text under any circumstance's.

Like any OCR tool, even a scanner, it's not magic, and you can futz things up easily. When I first tried this app out I got pissed off enough to start a refund process. But then I reconsidered...

Scanned much better than I thought.

I tried to scan newspapers, magazines and books, and never got anything but garbage out, using a 3G phone. Maybe if I had a Clarify case it would work better, but it would have to work a lot better to be useful at all. Too bad, because I really wanted this app to work.

OCR is way, way off. Serious work needed before this is usable.