Scanner Pro for iOS has today received a hefty update. The latest update brings the app to version 7 and includes a host of new features, including text recognition, quality improvements, workflows, ...

There are a number of reasons why you might want to extract the text from an image. Perhaps you have a business card and you want to enter the details into your Contacts, maybe you just don’t fancy ...

Sid Colquitt wrote that he had a paper print-out of a document that he would like to convert to a Microsoft Word file. Yes, this can be done with a scanner and an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) ...

The Pandigital Personal Scanner/Converter—5x7 PanScn04 ($99.99 direct) is one of about 10 scanners Pandigital sells that are basically variations on a theme, with some branded with the Pandigital name ...

There are quite a few choices on iTunes for apps that can turn images of documents, book pages, business cards, and more into digital, editable text. Our favorite is TextGrabber for its ease of use, ...

You can't. No software that scans pages and converts them to text is certified 100 per cent accurate. At best, such software, called OCR (Optical Character Reader) highlight possible mistakes and ...