ABBYY TextGrabber 6

Hi guys, We are very happy that the new TextGrabber 6 is on Product Hunt today! Thank you for hunting us, @chrismessina! Would not be an exaggeration to say that we‘ve put a whole lot of work into the app. TextGrabber 6 for iOS has received the new Real-Time Recognition technology that captures text in life video stream without the need to take a photo or crop it. Just point your smartphone camera at the text and digitize it in an instant – much faster and easier. The recognition works offline, no Internet connection needed. The number of recognized languages is the biggest for this type of recognition. What can you do with the captured text? Anything you want! Copy, edit, share, translate into 104 languages or hear it read out loud using VoiceOver. All the URLs, phone numbers, email addresses, street addresses, times and dates become clickable, so you can easily visit websites, make calls, create emails, find locations on maps or add events to the calendar straight form the app. Much easier than copying all this information by hand. In addition to that, we completely redesigned the interface of the iOS app making it more intuitive, modern and user friendly. TextGrabber for Android does not have real-time recognition capabilities yet, but will receive them later this year. “A super useful OCR and translation app”, according to TechCrunch, one of Business Insider’s “top 5 apps for people who travel a lot”, and an example of “black magic” according to Phone Arena, TextGrabber was created to help people easier perform their everyday tasks. It is an essential tool for travel, business and school as it quickly and accurately captures text in a foreign language and translates it into the user’s language of choice. It also serves the needs of people with low vision who will be able to hear virtually any text from print, computer or TV screen with minimum effort or delay. To celebrate the launch, we made TextGrabber free to download until June 29. Today, exclusively for the Product Hunt community, we are offering a promo code for the translation in-app purchase in TextGrabber 6 for iOS. To activate it, please follow these steps: open the app and tap [i] on the History screen; tap and hold the [About] option until you are asked to enter a promo code; enter the code ARES1. We are looking forward to your comments and questions – we will answer them all! Have a wonderful day, everyone!

This new version of TextGrabber looks stellar now that it's doing the processing in real-time and on the device: Powered by machine learning, the app lifts text of any color from any background directly on a camera preview screen eliminating the need to take a photo. The recognition is performed on the device, no Internet connection is needed. The technology works with 61 languages, the biggest number on the market in its category. The digitized text instantly becomes actionable: it can be copied, edited, shared, translated into 104 languages or read using VoiceOver. All links, phone numbers, email addresses, street addresses and event details become clickable for the user to easily perform the corresponding task – follow, call, email, find on maps or add to the calendar. As an additional feature, TextGrabber also works as a QR code reader. All the digitized texts and QR codes are saved in the app’s History section, easily accessible for further use.

Great to see this here - I downloaded the update when it hit the app store on iOS. BTW is it meant to be free only on the iOS store? I see a sale for it on the Play store but it is not free at this time? Just so I know what to share with my network - thanks

TextGrabber was a handy tool for me. Now it's even better. I'm really impressed with real-time recognition feature. And it's free for old users. I would pay for the new version if I could just to support developers :)

I like it, one of my favourite app 🔥

Using since first versions. This one is a huge leap forward. My normal scenario was to cut off pieces of text from paper. But with video support that's going to be much more handy.

This could have saved me from learning all the vocabulary when I had to pass latin exams in school. Very cool update! I use this daily at university.