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.
Application Name
Features
For who?
License Type
Platforms
Office Lens
Convert to PDF
Immersive Reader
Image pre-processing
ID scanning
text editor
camera scanner
Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF
Faculty/Staff/Students –
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.
Free and Paid
Android, iPhone and Windows desktops.
Adobe Scan
Camera scanner
Color contrast changer
Manual and auto cropping
Open files from your local phone
Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF
Faculty/Staff –
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.
Student - free version available with limited feature access.
Free and Paid
Android, iPhone
Text Fairy
Camera scanner
Text-to-Speech
Convert OCR to text
Google Translate
Export to PDF
Open files from your local phone
Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF
Students, Faculty, and Staff.
Free
Android
ABBYY FineScanner AI
Camera scanner
Open files from your local phone
Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF
Students, Faculty, and Staff
Free and Paid
Android, iPhone
CamScanner
Camera scanner
Convert OCR to text
Open files from your local phone
Sync from Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box
Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF
Students,Faculty,and Staff.
Free - limited feature access Paid - monthly/yearly subscription. 10GB cloud storage, and more.
Visit Camscanner pricing
Android, iOS, iPad
Copyfish - Free OCR Software
OCR images, videos from the web
Desktop OCR screenshot available - extra software required
Students ,Faculty, Staff.
Free - primary features available Paid - Pro features like Google Translate and better OCR
Visit Copyfish Pricing
Browser extension-
Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge
Desktop –
Windows, Mac, Linux
OCRSpace
Upload supports PDF,PNG,JPG
Students, Faculty, Staff
Free and Paid
Website -
Supports all browsers