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#BYOD Tool: TextGrabber
This is the first in a planned series of posts that each focus on a tool that will be useful to both students and teachers in a BYOD context. The plan is that each posts explores an application or accessory that will really be useful and easy to use. This first one looks at an Optical Character Reader (OCR).
ABBYY Textgrabber is a useful app when you need to extract text from printed sources easily by using the device’s camera to digitise and share quickly. I have it on my iPhone 6 and iPad. It is not free but certainly is worth paying for if you need to do any of the the possible uses highlighted at the company’s website:
I mostly use it to capture the quotes I need from books and quickly digitise them rather than typing the whole passage out. It mostly works well and helps with reducing errors and typos.
This brief video will give you the idea but I like the promotional one you can view when deciding to buy it or not when checking out the Android or Apple app.
You can fin ABBYY on Facebook and Twitter or check out their Youtube channel.
Featured image: screenshot from https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/textgrabber-+-translator-ocr/id438475005?mt=8