TextDetective: rapid recognition of text on iOS

Technology, once considered science fiction, and only shows on television in various films and television series, gradually get the implementation to perform everyday tasks. Remember, even tablet computers were something unusual and futuristic. And now every second in the hands of the iPad. Something that was previously unattainable, now quite mundane thing or technology, to abandon that - how to get to the stone age. For example, Word LensOf which I wrote recently, shows us quite well then, what steps is progress. Video calls, virtual and augmented reality, exoskeletons and even small projects with Kickstarter- all once (not so long ago), it was something incredible. As TextDetective application that recently caught my eye.

I am confident that the essence of the work TextDetective I will not be surprised, but nevertheless let's put aside skepticism, look back a little and see if it was available like 10 years ago?

The principle of the application is quite simple: recognize text.
You launch the app, point the camera at the area of ​​the smartphone with the text and wait for a while (quite short, it must be said), until the program finishes processing. Upon completion, you will see a field in which will be available to the recognized fragment.

Then you can save this part of the text in a story, send directly to Facebook, Twitter or Email (where you can edit it) or share the results for further improvements recognition quality. Perhaps this is all what the TextDetective.

You might say that it is now quite a lot of applications that can do the same. Same FineReader engaged in this is not the first year. But there's interaction with the application is done a little differently. First, you need to take a photo or picture to slip application to begin the process. TextDetective does not ask "dance" before the text, making it easy to view photos. He determines where the text and starts the processing as soon convinced that the image quality it is enough for the treatment.

Yes, the essence is the same, just TextDetective he makes the photo (which is quite convenient, since it does not need to reach for the button and thereby displace the device), but such an interaction, not requiring user intervention superfluous posing justified.
Unfortunately, the Russian language and the application does not understand the issues after treatment just like English characters (of course, it is more convenient for us TextGrabber), But they may make to each other to compete under equal conditions. Especially that TextDetective is completely free and does not contain a built-in shopping.