CheckTip (iPhone) - The best and coolest way to figure tips!

Developer Quote: "Tired of pulling out your calculator to calculate the tip at a restaurant? Then try CheckTip. Simply take a photo of your check and CheckTip will use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology to input and calculate your tip and check amounts."



If you're going out to eat with friends and family during this holiday season you owe it to yourself to get this app. You can see from the screenshots what it does. It's not just a tip calculator. We're drowning in tip calculators! It scans your bill and shows you on the resulting pic the tip amount and total. How cool is that?

Features:

-Simply take a photo of your check while putting the check amount in the rectangular box
-Slide the slider to adjust tip percentage -Your done!
-Your tip and total percentages are shown ON THE CHECK!
-If you want to adjust where the tip and total amounts are displayed, simply drag them where you would like.
-Click the green check button to save the photo to your camera roll so you can keep it for your records.

Click on the icon below to get CheckTip from the iTunes App Store!



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Capture2Text (Windows) - Captures text from photos

Everyone knows you can't select the text you see in a photo onscreen. So what do you do when you need to copy it? You're certainly not going to type it out by hand! Here's an easier(?) way to grab the text in photos on your computer screen - OCR it!

Capture2Text is an open-source tool designed to use optical character recognition to read the text in a graphic on your screen and pop the result into a little editable window for any corrections that are needed (machines aren't perfect!). You can then copy it to your clipboard and paste it wherever your heart desires.

I found it a little tricky to get the hang of, but as you can see below, it works!

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TopOCR - Converts digital images to text

Looking for a free way to take your digital images of documents and convert them to editable text? This freeware application specializes in images taken with digital cameras and smartphones. From the developer:

Can your camera or smartphone replace a scanner for document capture with OCR? The answer is a resounding YES! TopSoft, Ltd, a leading developer of OCR and image processing software has created an application specifically for OCR data capture with digital cameras and smartphones called TopOCR. TopOCR uses the latest most powerful neural net pattern recognition and digital signal processing techniques for the best possible OCR results from digital cameras. This OCR technology is the result of years of research and development in the United States and Europe. Unlike OCR applications designed for scanners, TopOCR understands that images from digital cameras and smartphones have more variation in image quality. As a result, the OCR processing in TopOCR is more robust and utilizes sophisticated image processing algorithms that the older OCR programs completely lack. After a lot of testing, and feedback from early users, many people feel that OCR document capture based on digital cameras will be the wave of the future.

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PDF OCR - Transform your PDFs into editable text

Portable document format, and optical character recognition. That's what the terms PDF and OCR represent. If you already knew that, good for you. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, this app allows you to take your uneditable PDF document and make the text editable. This is a hugely useful ability. From the developer:

"Editable - Edit Scanned PDF Documents like editing a text file!

Easily - OCR PDF To Text Just In Only 2 Clicks.

Fast - PDF OCR has a fast OCR engine, 92% faster than other OCR software.

Page Selection - OCR single, range or all pages at a time.

Over 10 Languages Supported - Besides English, PDF OCR Also supports German, French, Spanish, Italian and many Languages else."

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OCR Terminal - Get 30 free pages of OCR daily

Scanning to PDF or image files and translating to editable text is one of those capabilities that you may not need every day, but when you do, it's indispensable. You can get 30 pages per day for free on this website.

OCR Terminal

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JOCR - Free OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Utitlity

OCR is one of the truly useful capabilities every computer user needs at his or her disposal. Scenario: You have an image file that contains text you need to edit. You cannot edit the text or copy it because it is in an image. Not editable. What do you do?

Most folks would go ahead and retype it. That's fine if it's just a sentence or two, but when it's mul;tiple paragraphs, there is an easier way. This free app allows you to screencapture the image and recognize the characters, converting them into text. From the web site:

"JOCR enables you to capture the image on the screen and convert the captured image to text. It is useful to revive the protected files whose text can not be copied.  JOCR enables you to copy text from any files and images on the screen such as protected Web pages, PDF files, error messages.  The program offers several capture modes.

JOCR requires Microsoft Office 2003 or higher version. If JCOR does not work, please manually install "Micorosoft Office Document Imaging" (MODI) that is included in the setup file of Microsoft Office. You can find MODI under "Office Tools" of the setup file."

JOCR


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