Text Extractor - Extract text from PDF & Image with OCR App Reviews

Doesn’t work well at all

For the documents I’ve been working with, this app has not been able to generate anything but gibberish at all. This cost too much money for its limited functionality, and should not claim the effectiveness that it does. Not worth the money and a waste of time.

bad

It does not work most of the time.

149 Pages Came out 99.99% Accurate

I had a 149 page pdf (that was rather clean) that I needed to convert. I did a little a research and I seen prices from free to $159 for software. I tried multiple free websites that offer the service but none did the job. So I started browsing the apps… This one caught my attention because of price so I figured why not give it a try. Based on the reviews and the free websites I already tried, I wasn’t too confident that it would work. Five minutes after the purchase, I had a the entire PDF converted and the text was 99.99% accurate if not more. I have to make little edits here and there but they are underlined and sure beats typing 149 pages. This has multiple languages that you can select but I only used the English one so I can’t say for the other. No images were imported in the new doc which I didn’t expect but I did have tables in the doc and it extracted the figures. All in all I could not be happier with the purchase.

this application still fails to exract at least half of the text

I have high quality pictures of text, yet, this application still fails to convert it. it misses most of the time at least 50% of the content is symbols and numbers. Some other times it might get the text correct but i does not get it complete. it extracts only half of a full page letter. the most desapointing part is that i paid $9.99. if it was only $1.99 i wouldt mind. that’s just too much for nothing. it lacks tools to extract specific text, its very plain.

Slow, innacurate and can’t save PDF as searchable PDF

The product is slow. Slow would be okay if it were more accurate. It claims to be 90+% accurate. It wasn’t for the PDFs I tried. And finally, most people don’t just scan a PDF and the OCR with the expectation of extracting a few works here or there. They would like the PDF to be searchable. This functionality is either missing or too hard to find. Either way, it should support saving searchable PDFs.

good

this is good and easy to use but wish it is bit more accurate and text size can be change or increased while editing,its too small but better than the other more costly one..

Outstanding!

I had purchased PDFScanner and was very disappointed. It is not easy to use and does not do a good job performing OCR. TextExtractor is the one for me.

not as good as the previous ratings would indicate

based on the reviews of this item, I expected it to do a better job of recognizing characters. I like the interface, but there are way too many misspellings in the translation. Overall, I regret having made this purchase. I should have tried it first instead of trusting reviews. That's my bad.

Very disappointing waste of money

The output is very poor. Nor will it simply make a pdf searchable - it provides a character dump that had a ton of errors and was not readable. Worst app I have bought on the App Store for Mac or iPhone.

Easy to use and accurate

I have tried a number of other OCR tools. This one is fast and easy to use. I am no longer fearful of retrieving text from my old, scanned documents, when the source has become unavailable or unusable.

It preformed as promised!

It was easy to install. Does well with Spanish text.

Very nice app!

Love the clean look and the interface is very user friendly. It is missing a couple of features that you would find on nearly any other app these days, the first is Drag and Drop to open files, and and the second is the option to close a file when you’re done with it. Overall very happy with this app though.

exactly what I needed

Unobtrusive install, works good/fast, accurate. Thanks!

Great App, simple to use, and quite accurate!

I plan to use this for extracting text from pages I have highlighted in my school books. I have a mac with OS 10.6.8 and an HP all in one scanner C4480. I scanned the book page with 400 dpi and saved as a pdf image file. I launched Text Extractor and opened the file and the interface was simple. It extracted the text even though it was highlighted with orange flourescent sharpie with few missing characters. I copied and pasted the text into a word doc. It was easy and effective! Need to play around with my scanner settings to get the best image quality, but I have high hopes. Thanks for making my student work so much easier!

Great

Text Extractor is great. Clean interface, easy to use, accurate text recognition...A lot to like! This app is just what I was looking for when it comes to scanned files.

Nice OCR app

Overall it's an effective and reliable OCR application. It's worth considering for an OCR app at this price.

Does what it says, reliable

Terrific app for performing OCR on Mac. I don't want a long list of capabilities, this app does one thing flawlessly, extracting text out of image! Impressive.

Fast accurate text recognition app

Successfully get the text from my scanned documents with few error. And the proofreading ability and built-in text editor is a surprise, easier to fine tune its output.

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