App Spotlight: FineReader Touch brings multi-lingual OCR scanning to iOS

February 02, 2013

There are plenty of apps that can turn your phone into the equivalent of a mobile scanner, using the camera to take snapshots of various documents, then letting you file and/or share those documents. Ah, but what if you need more than just scanning and sharing? ABBYY's FineReader Touch for iOS performs OCR on the fly, converting printed documents into text you can edit, search, and more. This isn't the first app to offer such convenience, but it may be the most multi-lingual one: FineReader Touch supports an impressive 42 languages, from Abkhazian to Ukrainian. In fact, it supports up to three different languages in the same document. For anyone who routinely works with international clients, that could be a boon indeed. (Note that the app doesn't translate foreign-language documents; it can simply convert them to text in those native languages.) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026865/app-spotlight-finereader-touch-brings-multi-lingual-ocr-scanning-to-ios.html