What's New

1) Greatly Improved OCR scanning accuracy. It should be much more accurate than previous versions.

2) Greatly improved app stability.

3) Optimized app for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.

App Description

What is it:
OCR Search helps you quickly scan long words (movies, names, addresses, music titles, addresses) and search on popular websites.

Version 2.0 is much more accurate and stable than previous versions.

Currently it supports
1) G Search
2) G Maps
3) G Translate
4) IMDB
5) AllMusic.com
6) YouTube
7) Wikipedia
8) Facebook
9) LinkedIn


Top 3 reasons to use OCR Search:
1) Saves you the hassle of typing long addresses and search keywords.

2) Directly search on supported websites in one click without having to remember their web addresses.

3) Search multiple websites with the same search keywords.

Let us know which other popular websites do you use at [email protected]

Limitations:
The OCR technology is still a developing technology. Thus it may not work too well when there is too much noise in the scanned image. Works best with type-written words with good contrast.

iPhone Screenshots

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OCR Search screenshot 1 OCR Search screenshot 2 OCR Search screenshot 3

iPad Screenshots

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OCR Search screenshot 4 OCR Search screenshot 5 OCR Search screenshot 6

App Changes

  • June 08, 2014 Initial release
  • June 11, 2014 New version 1.1
  • July 21, 2014 New version 1.2
  • September 15, 2014 New version 1.3
  • March 01, 2015 New version 2.0

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