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Scanthing extracts text from pictures and documents and allows you to
search for them by keywords on your phone using OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) technology and now playback the text using Text-To-Speech
Technology. Its the only Document Scanner you need.
“I use the app to scan newspaper and magazine articles, the conversion
to text is excellent if I need to reference the text in materials for
my students“ - Rachel Heath, Teacher
“Just used it to translate from a menu in Dutch to English in under 20
seconds whilst sitting in the restaurant, amazing!“ - Lucky Brekova,
Lover of Fine Dining
"As a person with very poor sight Scanthing gives me a third eye
meaning I can get on with my life wherever I am" - Steve Wright,
Partially Blind but very Active.
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#EYESFREE - we are now pleased to announce that the latest version on
Play (1.3) supports technology specifically designed for the Blind. It
fully integrates into Android Talkback and Explore by touch. Users
can, with one click, capture and image, trigger OCR and then have the
text played back on the phone through text to speech.
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Feature List:
* Capture your image using our dedicated camera, your mobile’s own
camera or an existing image from your gallery. Rotate and crop the
text you want to extract.
* Then extract the text using our powerful server-side OCR that runs
in the background so you can carry on using your phone.
* Using a Text-To-Speech Engine of your choice (we recommend IVONA)
you can play back the text, sentence by sentence directly through
Scanthing.
* Scanthing will automatically recognise and extract contact
information, such as Telephone Numbers, Web URLs and Email Addresses
for easy, one click linking to other features on your phone such as
web browser, email client or your contacts database.
* Works with all printed typefaces, but please note it will not be
able to read your handwriting.
* Use with Google Translate on your phone to convert from one of the
33 languages we support to another.
* Fully secured HTTPS connection to our servers. We do not retain your
image or extracted text after processing.
* After Scan, search for your documents by just using a few keywords.
* Share image or extracted text by Email, Dropbox, Evernote, Google
Translate and other apps.
* Add more images to existing documents, see documents by thumbnails.
* Convert many documents at once in a batch, because the OCR
processing is done on our servers the performance of your phone is not
affected.
* Associate Tags with your documents and then use Tags to find
documents fast when your on the move.
* Support for 33 languages, just set your default version in the settings.
* The app itself has been translated to German, French, Spanish and
Russian. The Russian translation was kindly done by one of our users:
Алексей Ширшиков.
OCR Languages Supported:
Bashkir
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
DutchBelgium
DutchNetherlands
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
GermanNewSpelling
Greek
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian
Polish
PortugueseBrazil
PortuguesePortugal
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Tatar
Turkish
Ukrainian
What's in this version: (Updated : Dec 30, 2013)
Important fix for crash on ICS (4.0) or older.
Create a print friendly version of your image using our image cleaning feature.
Create a PDF of the extracted text, or, a searchable PDF from your image.
Can now automatically share the OCR result to the application of your choice.
New home screen with a bigger view of your documents.
Various bug fixes and small enhancements.
Free Download here
“QR Code” - finding what you want by auto-scanning a QR code.
