Well once again, I do not understand why some people get bad results and others good results. If you read the instructions, you will see that 1. you need sufficient light, low light introduces too much noise. 2. Be sure that the picture is sharp - no? then retake it!, 3. Text to be scanned (photographed) needs to be as straight as possible. Sometimes when you scan a book the curvature throws off the OCR. I have scanned in both English and German, and I am amazed that it can work so well on an iPhone. Several have been perfect, and some had a few errors, i.e. 0 (zeros) seem to always be recognized as capital O's. Under low light conditions, or skewed text, I get the predictable result, gibberish! So keep trying, this can only get better. To the dev: Can you add the ability to use pictures from you library, that have been enhanced, i.e. contrast adjusted, etc. or possibly add the ability to tweak the picture in the app? Thanks, for a great app!

Worth hella-more than 99c to me! Just follow the tips and it works far more often than not.

After the developers promptly added a much needed feature (ability to import Camera Roll images), I am amazed by the power of ScanCam! I've just scanned a long paragraph of italicized text reproduced in a reprint of an old John Muir book and the accuracy was nearly 100 percent! This OCR engine is really first-rate. I would also add that preparing the text image by 'squaring' it up and increasing contrast with a product like JotNot seems to help ScanCam do its job better. Although not absolutely necessary, it further improves the app's already impressive accuracy. Perhaps ScanCam's developers ought to consider a co-promotion or bundling with JotNot? In any event, don't be put off by any negative review. Try this yourself, especially if you have the higher resolution 3Gs. By the way, it took a couple of reboots after installing before it started working properly for me. Give it a chance before deleting. It really is amazing! (And I have absolutely no association with the developers.)

Bad app, fix it, it does not work, also would be cool if you can add pics from your photo library.

The app barely works. Even if the scanned text is perfect, random characters still show up. It also changes the layout of the text, so if you scan a recipe, this program renders it useless. Great concept, but as of now I feel like I wasted my money.

Does not work well at all. Wait for updates.

Tried multiple sources, different typefaces, different size fonts, etc. Recognizes maybe 50-60% of the words. By the time you finish cleaning up the scanned text, you might as well have typed it to begin with. This is the first 99 cent app I've purchased that I didn't feel I got my money's worth.

Half a star would be most appropriate for this apps. Very disappointing as most times all you get is gibberish. 30/40% of time there may be some text. Tried different sources and light conditions but nothing seems to make a difference. You are better off just typing text rather than scanning and not wasting your time editing text. Even for 99 cents I expect product to work at least 90% of the time.

I have a brand new 3Gs iPhone. I followed the instructions precisly (bright light, block typed lettering, etc). The program eigther crashed or gave me gibberish. Not happy with results.

This is easily the worst app I've purchased. I hope the developers can make this work, it's a wonderful concept.

I can never get ut to work. Let's see a video of this working

Bad app, fix it, it does not work, giving the 2nd star, now that we can use our own photos, but this app needs work, please fix.

Don't waste your money. Program crashes on a 3gs phone and doesn't work. This app should be removed from the store. I just wasted $0.99

App crashes all the time and when it does not the OCR is mostly incorrect