This is great – easily the best free app I have found in ages but seemingly released without fanfare – not even a Beta Labs blog post.
Multiscanner is a pocket Optical Character Recognition (OCR) package that has been bundled with the E71 and E66. What this means in practice is that you can use the camera to take a photo of a business card or document and the software will turn it into either a text note or (in the case of a business card) will try to populate a contacts record with the scanned info.
For such a tiny package it works remarkably well – the business card scanner is particularly cool. There are a few glitches and it finds small fonts a bit trying but as long as you accept that it will make mistakes and work around them this is a little corker.
The version available here seems to work on any recent S60 handset (e.g. a Noia N95) but it seems to be unsupported at the moment.
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works surprisingly well on a N95
especially considering its abillity on standard academic books font size , light in a library and the speed which it is able to convert the text at.
not perfect, appears to have about 85% conversion, so a fair amount of post editing, perhaps possible to get above 90 or even 95