Scan Cam App Reviews

Funkioniert sehr gut war sehr überascht fuer das kleine Geld. -cannot choose recogniton area -cant choose from library and roll +Works with various backgrounds. +Very small interface +Very little money for this feature +its fast , but no status indicator +language section

Works to a certain extend. But a little improvement is necessary. I would like to have the option to scan text from a foto that is already in the camera roll.

<1st review on July 28> I tried 5 fives. Every time, I get funny characters. The OCR translation is not even close. It doesnt even scan big six letters "iPhone". I want my money back. <2nd review on Aug 6th> I tried version 1.2 to give it another try. I tried six more times. Id say the scanning is about 20% accurate. 3 out of my six tries, the app crashed. I have the new 3GS iPhone model. Apple should not have approved this buggy app. <3rd review on Sep 3> I dont see this version being any better. I suggest Senstic let users try for free. Maybe, other people can prove me wrong.

Doesnt do a great job. It got a lot right on giant bold text like an advertisement with 4 words, but for any real use its mostly gibberish. Not completely useless but mostly useless.

This application doesnt work at all. After u take the pictre it takes 1 min to a minute and a half to analyse the picture, and then the translation isnt even close. Symbols appear Every other letter. For example, I took a picture of part of my book cover "research" that was clear, in black text over a white background. And it came out as "4>£ea(#". This is a complete waste of time. If anyone has an app that does OCR pls recc it to me. Save ur money

I am using this app every day for several months with my 3GS, and I am quite satisfied with it. If quality of picture is good, it will do good job. It does have some problem with breaks (some words are get combined together), but I hope that they will address it soon. Overall-Good Application for 3GS.

This app just dont work at all, in french its even worst... Worst than worst!

I bought both applications, Scan Cam being the second after loving the Business Card Reader application. Obviously, all OCR engines are not the same, and this one does not work. Save your money. Do not make my mistake: STAY AWAY FROM THIS APPLICATION. IT DOES NOT WORK.

Save your money as this app is a big disappointment in every way.

一度も成功しない。文字化けしすぎ。 I never succeed. Pay money!!!!!!!

The scanning function stopped half way through, and the result of the scan was apparently random bits and bytes of information. There was literally no legible symbols in the scan result (apart from a star which wasnt in the text) and no order to the mess. Space Invaders would do a better job at scanning text than this app.

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.

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 Ive purchased that I didnt feel I got my moneys worth.

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

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.

After the developers promptly added a much needed feature (ability to import Camera Roll images), I am amazed by the power of ScanCam! Ive 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 apps already impressive accuracy. Perhaps ScanCams developers ought to consider a co-promotion or bundling with JotNot? In any event, dont 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.)

This is easily the worst app Ive purchased. I hope the developers can make this work, its a wonderful concept.

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.

Dont waste your money. Program crashes on a 3gs phone and doesnt work. This app should be removed from the store. I just wasted $0.99