If you spend a lot of time with paper documents, an OCR app on your Android phone or tablet can make your day a whole lot easier. Here's how they work.

3. OCR Test OCR Test is an experimental app based on Tesseract and is free to download and use. The accuracy of its OCR isn’t that great, but the way it works is pretty similar to that of Goggles.

The Competition There are a lot of OCR apps, some of which use the same ABBYY mobile OCR engine as TextGrabber. Cost varies and so do feature sets. Many are only geared towards scanning business ...

The best scanning apps give you options for where you can save or export your newly scanned texts, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or another storage service. OCR for editing and search.

If the most important feature of an OCR app is how well it does at recognizing text from a PDF or image file, then FineReader Pro is, by far, the best OCR app that I have ever used. I have ...

The best scanning apps give you options for where you can save or export your newly scanned texts, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or another storage service. OCR for editing and search.