Scan Cam App Reviews

App crashes all the time and when it does not the OCR is mostly incorrect

I can never get it to work. Lets see a video of this working. So fake

I have a 3Gs and have found this program to be stable. It has not crashed at all. It seems to recoginze at about a 70 to 80 percent accuracy and seems to do better the more I use it as I learn more how to shoot the text for the best recogintion. The most common mistakes are the joining of words by omitting the spaces in between and also misinterpreting two letters as one ("rr" becomes "m" and such). For an OCR program that costs less than s dollar before tax, I am quite happy. I fond this app is saving me time. My only complaint is the near useless crop/adjust fearture. It is so slow. I just take the time to better shoot my photo so I can avoid using the crop/adjust option.

Well once again, I do not understand why some people get bad results and others good results. If you read the instructions, you will see that 1. you need sufficient light, low light introduces too much noise. 2. Be sure that the picture is sharp - no? then retake it!, 3. Text to be scanned (photographed) needs to be as straight as possible. Sometimes when you scan a book the curvature throws off the OCR. I have scanned in both English and German, and I am amazed that it can work so well on an iPhone. Several have been perfect, and some had a few errors, i.e. 0 (zeros) seem to always be recognized as capital Os. Under low light conditions, or skewed text, I get the predictable result, gibberish! So keep trying, this can only get better. To the dev: Can you add the ability to use pictures from you library, that have been enhanced, i.e. contrast adjusted, etc. or possibly add the ability to tweak the picture in the app? Thanks, for a great app!

Does not work at all. Complete piece of crap. Tried multiple times, scanning clear, block letters, and nothing but gibberish returned.

This is the biggest garbage I have ever bought. Whoever wrote this works is either a complete idiot or the developers trying to trick you into buying to make $$$. Do yourself a favor and avoid paying for this scam. This app should be called SCAM SCAM.

Dont waste your time. :-(

I bought this in the hopes of scanning notes from my workbook for class... Its horrible, almost all the words are jibberish. I took a photo with a dslr and emailed it to my phone and it still didnt like the picture... It doesnt seem to do its job very well:(

Used the camera to scan. Result was jibberish. Ok maybe the picture didnt come out clear. I took a screenshot of an actual PDF on my iMac and tried that. I still got the same jibberish. Not a single English word came up! This is junk! I want my money back! FAIL!!!

Every time I tried this app, it scanned pieces of words but mostly produced random letters numbers and ASCII symbols, very far from what is claimed it can do. Dont buy.

This is total BS. Rip off does not work AT ALL. Pay no attention to other reviews, this app has absolutely no functionality at all. All it gave me was gibberish, and I spent a long time trying to get a result.

Accuracy is not bad. Maybe 5% of words are misspelled. Doesnt work with handwritten text. I would suggest dragon dictation if you want to save time converting handwritten notes to text. But if you are working with printed text this app is the way to go.

Even when I took a pic of large text, it got some words right but mostly gibberish & random letters. Only friends of the maker of this app would write a good review on this one.

Words are all scrambled. Would have been faster just to type it out.

Take a pass on this one; the scans always end up a random characters. Wasted $1.08... I gave it one star because I had to...its not even worth that...

I tried scanning and receive some gibberish, not what I scanned