Gboard for Android is beginning to roll out a rather nifty “Scan Text” optical character recognition (OCR) tool. Scan Text appears in the grid of Gboard capabilities and can be dragged to the toolbar ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows editing text in a graphic image or scanned document. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize an office ...

I need to scan and convert text from printed documents about, oh, about once per leap year. So it makes no sense for me to own a scanner or waste hard disk space with OCR software that I virtually ...

Scan text in an instant, and translate it into 70 languages, with this smart scanning pen. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals When you need to scan a line of text, or even whole paragraphs, the pen-shaped ...

Scanning apps have become a big category on iOS. There are a lot of great options and the quality and diversity of the category creates a healthy competitive atmosphere that means frequent updates and ...

I’ve long been using Prizmo to quickly extract text contained in photos using the iPhone’s camera. Developed by Creaceed, Prizmo has always stood out among iOS scanner apps thanks to its accurate and ...

Optical Character Recognition provides a nearly automated means of digitizing text from scanned pages, eliminating the need to retype them. Adobe Acrobat Professional includes OCR capabilities that ...

The popular Scanner Pro iOS app from Readdle is out with a notable update. It brings a really useful automated OCR feature, a fresh modern design including a new list view and sorting options, as well ...

Acrobat Professional has OCR capabilities that allow you to save scanned documents in Rich text format or as Microsoft Word Documents, both Doc and Docx. There may be ...

I'm using really old CPU power right now. I'd like something that's faster in general, and one thing in particular I'd like to speed up is my text scanning and OCR capabilities in Abbyy Finereader. I ...