01.04.2013 20:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

OCRKit app has good idea, so-so results

OCRKit ($59.99) has a useful goal; converting photos into searchable PDF files (also RTF, HTML, and text). You drag in photos, it produces documents. It couldn't be simpler to use. An app like this lives and dies by virtue of of its precision, however. Unfortunately, OCRKit did not shine in comparison tests. I created a number of samples and ran them through OCRKit as well as a free online converter tool (newocr.com). OCRKit consistently produced more errors in its output than the online tool, although the same kinds of errors challenged both approaches ("bLock" vs "b1ock" vs "block", for example, or "redcolor"

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