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Snapit

Snapit

by Yan Matusevich on Mar 18, 2010 1:08:45 PM — read 3,168 times

TAGS: Android Market, Apps,

Tested version: 1.1
Latest version: 1.3
Requires Android: from 1.5

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Summary

After reading the app's description in the market, I already got a vague impression of what the limitations of this app would be. It sounded like a very useful gadget, nonetheless.

Why am I speaking about it in the past tense? Find out more in today's Snapit test report.

Features & Use

Section rating:

Snapit is a text recognition software that fails to live up its promises. I can't even begin to list everything that's wrong with this program.

Wouldn't it be great if you could just take a picture of any text and simply copy & paste it into your contacts? You'd expect an app like this one to be able to do just that, right? Think again....

This app tends to only work when:

There's a black font on a white background
The font is HUGE
The text is NOT handwritten
The text is really short

And even then URLs, email addresses, and phone numbers aren't always identified correctly. Whether your text is recognized is a game of Russian Roulette— you can never be 100% sure what the outcome is going to be. It's faster to write down the number using a pen or keyboard than trying to scan it with this app.

After testing this app with every possible type of printed material, I found my results to be extremely dissapointing. As a demonstration, I typed up a test text with a made-up phone number, website, and email address.

As you can see on the screenshots, the program did manage to correctly scan the text, but failed to recognize the website and email address as links.

The developers simply didn't deliver. If the app has difficulty recognizing even the clearest of texts, the consumer really doesn't have any use for it.

Screen & Controls

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Once you've loaded the app, you're ready to take a picture right from the main screen. You can aim your camera at any object and make adjustments using the three buttons on the right hand side: take a picture, focus, or close the app. After taking a picture, you can access the following buttons on the right hand side: text recognition, cropping the picture, and going back to camera mode. The cropping feature is well-made. Using a frame displayed on your screen, you can crop out certain parts of the picture. The frame size is adjustable and moveable with the help of your finger. Make sure to press the save button after cropping any image. You have to press "back" before being able to use text recognition on your cropped image. I found this to be a bit confusing.

When using the text recognition feature, the following options appear on the right edge of your screen:

  • Share
  • Search
  • Translate

You can share your text via email or text message. You also have the option of copying the text to your clipboard. The search and translate options direct you to the developer's website instead of Google or Google Translate, as I would've expected. I didn't get the chance to really try out the translate feature, but I noticed that the default setting was English-Afrikaans, which strikes me as being a bit strange.

Bottom Line:

As far as the screen and controls are concerned, the app works fairly well. The app fails miserably at text recognition as well as with its search and translate features. If Snapit choose to develop and improve on their app, something good could still come out of this. In the meantime, this app has absolutely no practical value.

Speed & Stability

Section rating:

During our test, Snapit ran well on both the G1 and Milestone.

Price/Performance Ratio

Section rating:

Snapit can be downloaded for $1.99 from the Market. What a rip-off!

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Review "Snapit" from Mar 12, 2010 (German)

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Christoph D.
Apr 6, 2010 2:17:24 AM

The third screenshot is wrong ;)

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Market Comments

Henning, Sep 12, 2011
Tried to snap a french text in order to translate it. Did not work at all! Don't buy it.
vikas, Sep 3, 2011
Wish there was 0 stars for this crap..it bloody doesn't work..don't buy its not working at all
kamarajugadda, Aug 17, 2011
Does not recognize properly. results not accurate
Nigel, Jun 22, 2011
In good light, this works accurately for me. Pleased with the purchase. Integrated text to speech would be nice.
Daniel, May 17, 2011
Totally inaccurate does not work at all. The program might give me 1 or 2 actuall words but even they would be totally off from what i was looking at.
vlb, Apr 26, 2011
I am impressed. Easy to use and good results.
Soe, Feb 19, 2011
Why can't programmers not figure out to install their programs on the SD CARD? Uses too much memory on phone. Needs move to SD CARD.
, Feb 2, 2011
Very inaccurate, and there is no option for refund.
Phillip, Jan 24, 2011
Not nearly as accurate as it claims to be. It doesn't seem to know how to handle punctuation very well, which is kind of important.
Books60, Jan 9, 2011
This is a total rip off. Claims you can refund it but they lie!
Cole, Jan 2, 2011
Crappy, no refund, not worth $2
Dominick, Nov 17, 2010
Eh its okay
support, Nov 8, 2010
This is the first app I am so satisfied with after trying so many different apps. Definitely a must buy!
Skippy76, Nov 5, 2010
Not very accurate
Burke, Oct 21, 2010
UI was okay, but nothing I took pictures of was translated correctly, if at all. Uninstall & refund.
Jarek, Oct 1, 2010
Terrible ui but I love the idea well rebuy when it updates refunded
Work4latte, Sep 11, 2010
On my Droid, the OCR is poor. Also, it doesn't remember the languages I am translating from/to; I have to select them every translation. Uninstalled
Sid, Aug 14, 2010
Doesn't' work on larger documents over 5or 6 words even though photo is well focussed
bart, Aug 12, 2010
Nice
Force, Aug 9, 2010
Works!
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