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OCR Instantly

Livethesimplest.net7 apps · 1.7M installsToolsFree · contains adsIn-app purchases: $0.99 - $2.99 per itemcom.thesimplest.ocr

Snap a picture and instantly convert printed text to digital, editable text!

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Total installs
488,822
exact · Play shows 100,000+
Installs / day
+1
since last crawl
Rating
3.6★
5.9K ratings · 409 reviews
Released
21 Nov 2013
12.9y ago
Last update
19 May 2026
v3.2.0 · 5mo ago
Countries
—
not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
488.8K491.6K494.4K497.2K500K10 Oct12 Oct13 Oct
488.8K491.6K494.4K497.2K500K10 Oct12 Oct13 Oct

Installs per day · last 90 days

00.30.50.8111 Oct12 Oct13 Oct

Change timeline

Full history

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

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We estimate where downloads come from using the app’s position in Google Play’s top charts in about 140 countries. This app is not in any chart we have collected yet; the estimate appears as soon as it is.

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App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • Shares data with third parties App info and performance and Device or other IDs
  • Collects data App info and performance and Device or other IDs
  • Data is encrypted in transit

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

6 in 3 groups
4 Sensitive0 Notable2 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storage
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive2

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive2

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
OtherRoutine2

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is a technology to convert image to text. This apps takes an image and converts it into digitized text which can then be shared to other applications such as Email and SMS, or simply copy paste the text to anywhere you like. Full length review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5s948BJhRI = Important Notes = Garbage in, garbage out - make sure text is sharp and large enough for recognition. **Make sure text is upright (horizontally aligned to the app)** Beware of camera rotation! Handwritten text will not work. Text on top of unclean background (images or borders/lines in excel sheet) will not work. PDF source is not supported. OCR for Gujarati, Persian and Punjabi is experimental and the result is very bad. You have been warned. **Please read the in-app Help section for tips to improve OCR accuracy before leaving a bad review :) ** = Key Points = Offline OCR Built-in image enhancement tools Simple to use but feature rich Huge language support = Pro Features = Remove ads - Permanently removes all advertisements. Image dewarp - Fix text lines that are wavy/bent due to curved book pages. Save to sdcard & image share - Image/text can be saved to sdcard. Also allows sharing of enhanced image. OCR modes - Advance OCR modes, character white/blacklist, and disable dictionary. Paragraph scanning mode - Allows you to remove unwanted line breaks in paragraphs. Create PDF - Creates PDF files where text can be selected and copy paste. Text to speech - Text to speech language support. Also allows automatic text reading upon OCR. Multi-language OCR - Perform OCR with multiple languages. Full screen editing - Allows one to hide the image during text editing. = Supports more than 60 languages = Afrikaans, Albanian, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Frankish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian (Old), Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Middle English, Middle French, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish (old), Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

What's new

- Updated OCR library from Tesseract 3.0.2 to 4.0.0 for better results. Note that all languages other than the English needs to be re-downloaded via Settings. - Update to support devices on latest Android versions.

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