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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>Features</strong>
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                    <strong>For who?</strong>
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                    <strong>License Type</strong>
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                    <strong>Platforms</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">
                    </strong>
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                        <a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/mobile/scanner-app.html">
                            Adobe Scan
                        </a>
                   
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                        <strong>Camera scanner</strong>
                        <strong></strong>
                    </li>
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                        <strong>Color contrast changer</strong>
                        <strong></strong>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>Manual and auto cropping</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>
                </ul>
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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.
							
							<br>
                            <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">
                                      
                <p>
                     <a href="http://cats.cuny.edu/text-fairy/">
                            Text Fairy
                        </a>
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                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <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>
                </ul>
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                <p>
                    <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
                        </a>
                    
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                <ul>
                    <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>
                </ul>
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                <p>
                    <strong>
                        Students, Faculty, and Staff</strong>
                    <strong></strong>
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                <p>
                    <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

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                        <a href="https://www.camscanner.com/">
                            CamScanner
                        </a>
                  
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                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <strong>Camera scanner</strong>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>Convert OCR to text</strong>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>Open files from your local phone</strong>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>
                            Sync from Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box
                        </strong>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>Formats supported: PNG, JPEG,PDF</strong>
                    </li>
                </ul>
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                    <strong>
                        Students,Faculty,and Staff.
                    </strong>
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                    <strong>Free - </strong>limited feature access<br> <strong>Paid -</strong> monthly/yearly subscription. 10GB cloud storage, and more. <br>

Visit Camscanner pricing

Android, iOS, iPad

                        <a href="https://ocr.space/copyfish/#download">
                            Copyfish - Free OCR Software
                        </a>
                   
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                    <li>
                        <strong>OCR images, videos from the web</strong>
                        <strong></strong>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <strong>Desktop OCR screenshot available - extra software required</strong>
                    </li>
                </ul>
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                    <strong>
                        Students ,Faculty, Staff.
                    </strong>
                    
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                    <strong>Free -</strong> primary features available<br><strong> Paid -</strong> Pro features like Google Translate and better OCR<br>
          <a href="https://ocr.space/copyfish/#pro">Visit Copyfish Pricing</a>          <strong></strong>
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                <p>
                    <strong>Browser extension- </strong>
                    Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge
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                    <strong>Desktop – </strong>
                    Windows, Mac, Linux
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                    <strong>
                        <a href="https://ocr.space/">OCRSpace</a>
                    </strong>
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                    <strong>Upload supports PDF,PNG,JPG</strong>
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                <p>
                    <strong>Students, Faculty, Staff </strong>
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                    <strong>Free and Paid </strong>
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                    <strong>Website - </strong>
                    Supports all browsers
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