Scan, Convert To Text and Search (Scanthing OCR App)

[jklondon]

Does as it say, you take a photo of a document, crop it, extract the text and then you can search for that document on your phone using google search tab or our apps search tab and find the document in seconds. The documents are stored on your phone, the OCR is done using some serious hardware (via https) we dont store your documents after processing.

We think this is the best of breed OCR app on the Android marketplace in terms of text recognition quality.

If you want to try out the beta go here www.scanthing.com and give subscribe to the newsletter and will be happy to send to you.

ALSO

We have some other developers interested in doing OCR but in their own apps for various things, if this might be of interest to you let me know, we have a pretty simple API that you could use.

Best
JK

 

[short/y]

I dunno if this is a UK-only app/site or not but I can't seem to get the site to do anything -- enter email address and hit the subscribe button and nothing happens. It says the app will be launched in the Android Market in 0 months, 0 days, 0 minutes, 0 seconds. I've tried it in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer and they all behave the same way.

 

[Magnumutz]

Just applied for beta testing, hope i get accepted

 

[xriderx66]

I dunno if this is a UK-only app/site or not but I can't seem to get the site to do anything -- enter email address and hit the subscribe button and nothing happens. It says the app will be launched in the Android Market in 0 months, 0 days, 0 minutes, 0 seconds. I've tried it in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer and they all behave the same way.

same problem here - tried using firefox and chrome.
all things he mentioned are same with me.

 

[jklondon]

Hi - yes countdown fixed - when you submit your email addy I get an email, I am going through all of them, be patient happy to give all those who requested access. Pls DO give feedback once you have had a chance to try the app.

 

[Namuna]

Considering the exponential growth in mobile horsepower (with quad-core being imminent), will Scanthing be releasing a version with the OCR engine being onboard to the phone (instead of having to be sent out to a server)?

 

[jklondon]

Available on marketplace now - if you want to trial it please contact me directly

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.scanthing.android

Again please do send us your feedback directly to mail(at)scanthing(dotcom).

In terms of moving the OCR onto handset, probably not, others are already doing this. Our thinking going forward is to allow accessibility of your data in the cloud. Again this would be opt-in and not for all but thats where we want to go. This would allow us to for example plug into great services like https://www.greplin.com/.

 

[iori57]

You guys should try a new app in town, called OCR Instantly Free.

Supports offline processing, cropping and image enhancement. No other OCR app I tried have all these features and as good.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thesimplest.ocr