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August 2011

ABBYY TextGrabber Sure Does Grab Text

I'm not sure exactly what situation would cause me to pull this app out, but I love the technology at my fingertips. Just snap a photo of a page with text on it and ABBYY Text Grabber will convert it to editable text. My tests so far show it to be a great little OCR app. See an example above.

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Camera+ Adds Captions To Borders

A new feature was added to the Camera+ iPhone app today - captions. To access captions, add a border to any photo and tap on "caption." Camera plus styles each caption based on the border and you have no control over the font or placement. Each border also has different character counts allowed. Here are a few samples.

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