picatext App Reviews

Cest franchement pas efficace...

Stop typing, start copying! Thats right, its easy to use and works perfect. Congratulation to the developers.

Great little utility. Does exactly what it says in the description - and for several languages. To get five stars, the developers should definitely add retina-ready graphics, and maybe language auto-detection.

This app works exactly as I hoped on ONE of my Macs and I would normally give it a 5 star in that case. However, on my iMac Mid-2007, the app crashes instantly upon OCR processing and therefore is completely useless on that computer. I’ve sent an email with all of the details, including crash report data etc to the developers but recieved NO response. I re-sent the email a month later and nothing. It’s now been 4 months since I purchased the app and it remains useless on one of my two Macs and there’s been absolutely no contact from the developers.

Its OCR is sufficiant for most daily cases. (Like texts with common used fonts, codes etc. If the text have clear edges, it reads generally.) So if you will use it to translate readable texts, it does its job. After I bought it, I see there are many uses of the app. If you are note taker of everything, it helps you a lot. For example you are trying to copy some text from a web page, but it makes problem when selecting it, use the app to translate the text...

There is such program like Tabs Plus. I like to read tweets in Arab (some English tweets are sometimes, rarely, as interesting as Arab ones). I want to pick Arab text from the tweet and carry it over to Picatext. F. Only one window at a time; or picatext or Tabplus, and when I switch over from picatext to Tabplus, the picatext’s crosshair disappears. It shan’t.

Many mistakes! I`m write from screen by keyboard faster and smarter than this programm

I have been looking for a way of extracting text from late 18th and early 19th century publications available on the web (admittedly, an esoteric need ...) and figured that, at this price, Picatext was worth a try. So, I gave it a baptism by fire and try it out on a publication from 1800 that possesses considerable challenges — older fonts, the long s (which looks like an f but lacks the bar). The results were better than I had any right to expect. Heres the result: Several English and German, as well as German and Eng- lish Diétiqnaries, of various siees, have of late been published in ‘Germany ; but the all, unfortunately, prove but too evi- dently, that the respe ive ‘authors, though suflicicntly versed in the German language, ossessecl but a deficient knowl of the English {and a di °onary upon which the tyro mig t confidently rely, is still a desideratum. The two dictionaries before us, though far from what they mi ht be expe£led,vvill prove very acceptable to thelearners of e German language in this count . Obviously, theres a lot to clean up here, but I suspect that it may be less work than my having to type the entire passage myself!

I was so excited to try this app out when I found it, however I have a number of issues with the current version: 1) Isn’t working for me with photographs that have a bit of text 2) Looks absolutely horrible and very oversized on my Retina Macbook Pro. 3) I can’t simply drop my image to the menu bar - you have to load it from within the app. Makes my workflow take longer uncessarily. If the last two issues get resolved, I’d increase my rating to 4 or 5 stars.

I was looking for an OCR software for years. I bought this one based on the reviews below. It is unfortunate that it is not accurate enough to form a good decision. I installed the software and tried a screenshot. The result was 95% accurate which is cool. But, most of the time, you don’t use the screenshot. I uploaded different documents I received from different people. The software recognized 30% of the documents. To recognize the document, the scan should be in high resolution and the printing of the document should very clear. Those are the some of the results: (1) Screenshot: Whereas the Owner and PCM have entered into and signed an Agreement for Project Management Services on June 3"’. 2008, hereinafter called “Agreement”. Whereas the Owner and PCM have executed on 15 June 2011 an Amendment to Agreement for Project Construction Management Services, which Amendment has been effective since 01 June, 2011. (2) Scanned document HE: IVWC draft rr.pol’LS titicd “Candu:ion on Complt.-tron Safanor. Sheet as rat 1 July 2008" and Mrivfsory Service: on the Purchase Price Aa‘)ustmen: rt.-Iaredto shun: acquisition ofbath F009 and PDECO” ‘sear |v1x~.. Ila Chas, P.v’ere~.:e is made to t*L° Zxe~r.uti-re r‘riw1i.vatIaw Cc-nrn .«:5.Icr: vj‘tPf.") Iettcr rt! 53l1:5 da:-:<l lr.nJar~,".-", 23; 9gardir|b [hr complr.-tiu-x calculation lur tr‘-2 pr |?I.Ta.1Un u! hull: Iraid District Uectr ;-izy Cr.-nrtpa nv ["IDECO": and th: Flrrtr :i:v Di3.i’.,ul|Dn (.:)n-p.m~,» ;"EGCO": and to thv draft rapurl-.. preparcd iv; the mn5u|:an1 Pr.;e .‘r.=?£‘rhuuS9 (covers -I“Fw-2”} t {led {or-:«u:.‘r:n av: Comm’-°!Ion &aIanrr- Sheet as vi 2 ;o.t- 2:106" amt! "Mv.‘so:}- Sn.-v.:es on the Purchase r‘-rim :‘.qI..s:v.-.-rr-I‘ re.r:tsd [U srure ncoufs. (3.1 cfz‘m:.t EDCO and .LJEC0", ptease bu; h-firmed that Kingdom rlectrizitv Ftr Energy‘ ln.«v<.e.unen:s 7’SC (“KtC‘I- thrtzugln .h|S letter m::~w.‘es fctdt:ar.It to re rnr-utc-ned craft reports as u-r-.| as al perclng rtcm-. an lhE ¢.aL.u|a‘.xan of Me tornplu-xlnr. H313 me 5hee:.

This must be designed to only work with a very limited set of fonts because it just doesn’t know how to deal with different kinds of text. Even when taking screenshots of formatted text on my screen from a website (perfectly legible, no excuse for error), it still made mistakes if it was looking at older more low res fonts.

I have a Mac Mini with Maverics but the app doesn’t even open. How do I get a refund. Hopefully there will be an update soon that will make it work.

Is mainly what my copy outputs, regardless of method. Perfectly standard PDF’s with common fonts (Helvetica) are unreadable, or possibly translated to Klingon. Complete waste of $3.99, don’t buy it.

First time out, I pasted some text into it - perhaps 200 words - and then it crashed and now will not launch again. I am running 10.8.5 on a MacBook Pro. I am bummed.

I rarely review programs, but this program seems to be getting a bad rap. I needed a cheap program (not $500 or $170 or even $80) that could help me select small text excerpts from older (1930s) Spanish publications. These publications have tricky typesettings and often feature Latin. Picatext doesnt catch the Latin, but the interface is easy, no crashes so far, and the Spanish OCR is FANTASTIC - Id say 95% accuracy. This is not the type of program that can chug 1000 pages at 99.99% accuracy, granted, but for excerpts that can be carefully read over, its ideal. This was only $3.99 but will probably save me from MONTHS of tedium while I write my dissertation.

App will not work on Mavericks on 24” iMac. As soon as text is selected the little spinning wheel rotates for about 3 secs and then the app crashes. EVERY TIME. $4 down the drain. NOT recommended, especially since I wrote the developer twice, including crash logs, never to receive a reply.

I’ve used Picatext and Adobe Acrobat OCR with German, French, and Ancient Greek, and I think Picatext is more accurate. It can’t do more than a page at a time, so it’s only convenient for shorter texts. It seems to have trouble with numbers. Otherwise, if you read a lot of pdfs and want to copy and paste text from them, I’d highly recommend paying the $4 bucks for this great little program!

Program crashes - never worked!

This app is extraordinarily handy for getting text out of places where text is normally hard or impossible to select, such as images, computer dialogues, and more. I highly recommend it because of its speed, usefulness, and reliability.

All of the PDFs I attempted to get text from gave me this (DIRECT copy/paste): "Hanmzu-I. a.‘.nw>- have xullnl nfl III! WW?“ mm? _ ,,.. |,H;1g,» "am; away mm munh They Ouv: In! ~.1InUI|uia!l} .- Fulmndly pup: muem I-Iv pm, .; I-um: hr on Iulzmultymvnmaa Ive! nlnouul -mm: mmr.-Inns a’ M urns pcursxnms who l|VIl‘- gnu gm: emu yrncnuvl IE» :Itty.m:I:|7IIm ns:In~ .m: mnrnhy ltxvdlmvm: an :.m;us|;::a3. I9: us.-[[1:21] nix-uoumyalc who .1 nunnscnuapry u uham-rut. lalxnl. and Idaml. mu: uh: finasn:-savanna’ lmlnc II It 271:! M in: . mummy I an -‘manna 1:1;-slush! WM” This is from a PDF of a clearly typed article. So so so useless.