ABBYY TextGrabber: 1,000,000 Installs in 5 Days
ABBYY, an international OCR technologies provider, has announced that their image-to-text application TextGrabber, got installed 1,000,000 times in just five days while being featured by the App Store, Product Hunt and AppShopper.
TextGrabber scans, translates and saves text or QR-codes from any printed material. The app recognizes 60+ languages on any device, with no Internet connection needed. Then you can edit the captured text, hear it via VoiceOver, translate it into 90+ languages and send it as a text message or e-mail, or share it on social media.
These features make TextGrabber not only a life-saver for anyone travelling abroad, but also a great help for visually impaired people, due to its recently updated VoiceOver and adjustable font sizes.
The App Store Editors say: “Capturing printed words and magically morphing them into easy-to-edit digital text is TextGrabber’s bread and butter. But we love it nearly as much for the sci-fi cool factor of being able to instantly translate Italian restaurant menus, French fashion magazines, and Japanese graphic novels into our native language.”
Over 750,000 documents have been recognized and 100,000 translations made in TextGrabber in just five days of the App Store featuring, since June 16. The most popular languages are English, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, German, Spanish and Japanese.
TextGrabber has previously won multiple awards in Mobile Productivity App, Mobile Image Capture App and Text Input categories at the Mobile Star Awards, and has been called “the Best Image-to-Text App for iPhone” by Lifehacker.com. The app is currently #2 in the Education category on Product Hunt and is featured by AppShoper.
I am glad TextGrabber and OCR in general get real attention of the public. These are the technologies we’ve been working on for years, that make people’s lives significantly easier. And that’s the most important thing”, comments Artem Kumpel, ABBYY Vice President and Head of Mobile.
Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 8.0 or later
* 81.0 MB
For a limited time, TextGrabber 5.3.4 is Free (till June 23 – reg $4.99) and available worldwide through the App Store in the Productivity category. There is also an Android version available on Google Play. Translation is available as a separate in-app purchase.
TextGrabber 5.3.4:
http://www.abbyy.com/textgrabber/
Download from iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id438475005
Download from Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abbyy.mobile.textgrabber.full&hl=en
YouTube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90nOGEbXEZc
Product Hunt:
https://www.producthunt.com/tech/textgrabber
LifeHacker Article:
http://lifehacker.com/5829568/the-best-image-to-text-app-for-iphone
Source: ABBYY
