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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
What’s On My iPhone–TextGrabber from AABBYY
I’m not an app developer and I don’t work
for one, but I do use my iPhone for work and creativity, so I like to share
information about apps I have discovered that help me do so.
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I Need That Text!
AABBYY’s
TextGrabber is amazing. I use it to snap a photo of a page or paragraph of
text and the app goes about its job of recognizing the text and making it
available to me in plain text. It can also translate captured text and recognize
in different language. I haven’t tried the translate function because I have
been too busy capturing text, quotes and this and that for projects I’m working
on. It is saving me all kinds of time typing. I write a lot of curriculum and book reviews
and frequently I need to quote some text I’m working with. I read a lot of the books on an e-reader and I’ve
run into the problem of not being able to cut and paste text from the source
into the review or curriculum. No
more. Whether I’m reading a printed on
paper book or on an e-reader, I can use TextGrabber to capture small paragraphs
accurately and that is making my work very much easier.
Ready, Snap, Recognize
To demonstrate I grabbed a book I am
currently reading Wherever
You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn and turned to a random
page. I didn’t bother to get perfect light, or flatten the page properly
as directed by the instructions. I just opened the app and snapped a
page. I wanted to see if the app could
handle a fast, sloppy text grab. And it
did. Even
with poor lighting and no effort to get a good image, AABBYY’s TextGrabber was
still able to recognize the majority of the text and provide a usable text
version that I could email or incorporate in a quotation in my project. I
could also post the recognized text to Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, email or
text messages.
Also, I don’t have to open the app to
capture text. I can snap a photo using
the iPhone’s regular camera app, save it and process it later. That’s a handy feature because sometimes I
don’t have the time to pause for optical character recognition to run, but I
will have the time later. The application stores a history of
images and processed information so that I can retrieve all my work later.
When an app works this well for me, I’m
inclined to see what else the developers have on their site. AABBYY have a Business Card Reader for iPhone
that uses the same fast optical character recognition technology, the iPhone’s
autofocus and will drop your snapped business card directly into your iPhone
address book. I don’t get to receive too many business cards, but I can see how
such an app would be useful, especially if it works as seamlessly as
TextGrabber does.
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