List of OCR apps for Android, iPhone, and browsers
September 25, 2020
A process that allows users to have documents that weren’t originally
detectable or considered flat, now be editable for features such as
highlighting, note-taking, and Text-to-Speech. Learn more on OCR.
With the need of these features during remote learning, we’ve composed a
list for all of CUNY to take advantage of. Some of these solutions strictly
pertain to CUNY Faculty.
Recommended list of Optical Character Recognition applications for Android, iPhone, iPad, and browsers.
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<strong>For who?</strong>
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<img src="http://cats.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/MS_Office_Lens_Logo2.jpg" width="120" height="71" alt="Microsoft Office Lens logo"><br>
<a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-office-lens-pdf-scan/id975925059">
Office Lens</a>
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<li>Convert to PDF</li>
<li>Immersive Reader</li>
<li>Image pre-processing</li>
<li>ID scanning</li>
<li> text editor</li>
<li>camera scanner</li>
<li>Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF</li>
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<strong>Faculty/Staff/Students – </strong>
All CUNY Faculty, Staff, and Students can get access to the premium version
by using your CUNYFirst login. This license is provided by the Microsoft 365 CUNY license.
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<strong>Free and Paid </strong>
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<strong>Android, iPhone and Windows desktops. </strong>
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<strong>
<img src="http://cats.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/Adobe_scan.png" alt="Adobe Scan app logo" width="100" height="71" border="0">
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<a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/mobile/scanner-app.html">
Adobe Scan
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<strong>Camera scanner</strong>
<strong></strong>
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<strong>Color contrast changer</strong>
<strong></strong>
</li>
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<strong>Manual and auto cropping</strong>
<strong></strong>
</li>
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<strong>Open files from your local phone</strong>
<strong></strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF</strong>
<strong></strong>
</li>
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<strong><p>Faculty/Staff – </strong>
This is available for all CUNY faculty and
staff that have created an Adobe account with
their campus. Please contact your IT department
for information on accessing a license.
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<strong>
Student - </strong> free version available with limited feature access.
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<strong>Free and Paid </strong>
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<strong>Android, iPhone</strong>
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<img src="http://cats.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/TextFairy-Copy.png" alt="TextFairy app logo" width="125" height="100" border="0">
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<a href="http://cats.cuny.edu/text-fairy/">
Text Fairy
</a>
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<strong>Camera scanner</strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Text-to-Speech</strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Convert OCR to text</strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Google Translate</strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Export to PDF </strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Open files from your local phone</strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF</strong>
</li>
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<strong>Students, Faculty, and Staff.</strong>
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<strong>Free</strong>
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<strong>Android</strong>
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<img src="http://cats.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/ABBY_Finescanner.jpg" width="77" height="77" border="0" alt="ABBY FineScanner app logo">
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<a href="https://www.abbyy.com/products/mobile/finescanner-ai/en/">
ABBYY FineScanner AI
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<li>
<strong>Camera scanner</strong>
<strong></strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Open files from your local phone</strong>
<strong></strong>
</li>
<li>
<strong>Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF</strong>
<strong></strong>
</li>
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<strong>
Students, Faculty, and Staff</strong>
<strong></strong>
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<strong>Free and Paid</strong>
<strong></strong>
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<strong>Android, iPhone</strong>
<strong></strong>
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<strong>
<img src="http://cats.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/camscanner-logo.png" alt="CamScanner app logo