OCR Search app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Ling Wong
First release : 29 May 2014
App size: 22.13 Mb
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 contact_todo@urfamily.cc
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.