Technical Specifications

System Requirements


Hardware
  • iPhone 4
  • iPhone 3GS
  • iPhone 2G or 3G with Griffin Clarifi Case (required to improve photo quality)
Operating system
  • Minimum: iOS 3.1
  • Highly recommended: iOS 4.0 or later

Input Options

  • iPhone's Built-in Camera
  • Speech Recognition operated camera to avoid motion blur
  • iPhone's Photo Album
  • Copy/Paste from other Apps

Output Options

  • iPhone's Address Book
  • Copy/Paste to other apps
  • Email
  • Dropbox
  • CloudApp
  • MobileMe
  • Evernote
  • Photo Album
  • Text Translation (using Microsoft Translate web-based service)
  • Monitoring of pending uploads, background support

Output Formats

  • Raw text (encodings: UTF8, Latin1, Mac Roman)
  • vCards for contacts
  • CSV (Excel) files for bills
  • Original and processed images

Image Processing

  • Rotation of image (left or right)
  • Crop
  • Perspective correction
  • White point adjustment
  • User-controllable adaptive binarization
  • Image inversion

Data Processing


Task-based document scanning and data processing
  • Regular Text
    • Text Recognition (OCR)
    • Editing
    • Text Translation
    • Read Text with Text-to-Speech Technology
  • Business Cards
    • Text Recognition (OCR) and Interpretation (automatically enters contact information into appropriate fields)
    • Editing: add / modify / delete fields
    • Create contact in address book, or merge with existing
    • Save and send vCards
  • Bills
    • Text Recognition (OCR) and Interpretation (automatically detects labels, prices, and tax)
    • Editing: add / modify / delete fields
    • Tax and tip handling
    • Bill Splitting among people
    • Save and send CSV files
  • Whiteboards
    • Image Capture and Improvement

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

  • Fast and highly accurate OCR Engine (OpenRTK by ExperExchange, Inc.)
  • Support for 10 Languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian)

Text-To-Speech (TTS)

  • 35 high-quality male and female voices as In-App Purchase options (Acapela TTS by Acapela Group S.A.)
  • Support for 10 Languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian)
  • Interactive progress display
  • Next/Previous paragraph control
  • Speaking Rate control

Documents Handling

  • Saving/loading/re-editing of previously processed documents
  • Thumbnail display of existing documents
  • Search documents based on contents

User Experience

  • Hand-crafted interface elements and animations
  • Full support of Retina display (iPhone 4)
  • Background uploads and installation of voices (iOS4 only)