Abbyy TextGrabber + Translator

摘要

We have long wanted a portable scanner to grab texts from books and magazines. We'd tried a pen scanner, but the results were abysmal. Abbyy TextGrabber + Translator offers both OCR and translation, using just the camera on an iPhone or iPod touch. We scanned texts from books, magazines and printouts, in a variety of lightings. You need to hold your iPhone steady for about 10 seconds so the camera can focus, then tap a button to take a photo. The app lets you crop the photo, and scans the text. Recognition was best with narrow texts, where the scanned words were fairly large.