Mobile Document Readers (OCR) Apps
What is a Mobile Document Reader App ?
Mobile Document Reader Apps use Optical character recognition software OCR) to confvert images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo (for example the text on signs and billboards and then read it to the user.
One Step Reader (iOS/iPadOS - $99.99
One Step Reader, formerly known as KNFB Reader, continues to be your quick, accurate, and efficient access to any printed text through speech or Braille. So a new name, but with the same good functionalities! The transition of the KNFB Reader from the National Federation of the Blind (USA) to Sensotec and the accompanying name change to OneStep Reader (and OneStep Reader Multi) expresses the confidence of the NFB in Sensotec’s ability to provide continued support and upgrades that will benefit existing and future users.
OneStep Reader 3.0 is a rapid and efficient text recognition app. Its text-to-speech, text-to-Braille, and text highlighting tools make it valuable for blind, low-vision, dyslexic, and others with reading differences.
Use it to import or take a photo of anything containing text. Take a photo and the app reads text out loud or displays it on a connected refreshable Braille display. Read with more ease thanks to the simultaneous highlighting of the sentence and word that is being read on the picture or in the plain text document. The app helps you get a good photo with special alignment tools, including spoken and vibration guidance. Snap multiple pages, such as a book, for later reading.
• Reads image-based PDF and JPEG files, and now tagged PDF and ePub files too!
• Exports OneStep reader files as HTML or TXT files.
• Navigates by line, sentence, word, or character.
• Crop, rotate and edit the pictures you take before performing text recognition.
• View documents in PDF presentation mode with double highlighting while reading.
• View reading order and language-tagged PDF documents.
• Add and remove bookmarks in PDF documents.
• Switch between PDF view and reflowable text view.
• Read documents in the increasingly popular ePub format.
The app also has synchronized text highlighting to help you read along with the spoken text, a benefit for people with dyslexia and other reading difficulties.
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ABBYY FineReader. for iOS and Android.
ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) system. It is used to convert scanned documents, PDF documents, and image documents (including digital photos) into editable/searchable documents.
ABBYY FineReader 12 can automatically recognize and processes documents with any combination of 190 languages and provides full dictionary support for 48 languages.
- Instead of Desktop Scanning, scan any printed or hand-written papers, create perfect digital copies and save them to JPEG or PDF documents.
- Neural network analyzes your gallery and automatically splits photos into seven categories: A4, books, business cards, handwritten notes, IDs, other docs, receipts.
- You can instantly search through the text on your photos. All images are securely processed offline on the device.
- Extract text from scans offline or use online recognition to preserve the original document formatting. Supports 193 languages and 12 formats.
- BookScan. unique feature for digitizing books quickly and easily. It splits facing book pages into two separate images, removes any defects, and straightens curved text lines (iOS only).
- Use the set of easy-to-use tools to modify your PDF files. Add your signature or a text box, use highlighter, write with a pen, or conceal sensitive content with the redaction tool.
- Share your scans with everyone on the go. Email, print, or save to cloud storage, including Dropbox, Evernote, iCloud Drive and more.
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More OCR Document Readers.
*Some of the Identifier apps such as Seeing AI and Envision AI has a degree of OCR Document reader functions. Please see Mobile Access > Identifiers.
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