The application now allows users to quickly translate snippets of texts captured from various printed materials and information sources by using Google Translate™ technology. Captured and translated texts can be instantly shared with friends or colleagues via e-mail and SMS, or posted directly to the user’s account at Facebook®, Twitter™ and Evernote®.
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ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator for the iPhone® Offers Language Translation and Social Media Support
September 29, 2011
ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services , today announced ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator , the new, extended version of ABBYY TextGrabber for the Apple iPhone , a popular on-device solution that turns the iPhone into a multifunctional mobile scanner. The application now allows users to quickly translate snippets of texts captured from various printed materials and information sources by using Google Translate™ technology. Captured and translated texts can be instantly shared with friends or colleagues via e-mail and SMS, or posted directly to the user’s account at Facebook®, Twitter™ and Evernote®.
“With the new full-text translation function and the direct integration with the most popular social media, TextGrabber + Translator enables people to further increase their efficiency when working with text, saving time and a lot of effort otherwise spent on manual search and retyping”, commented Olga Tolstunova, deputy director of the Mobile Products Department at ABBYY.
ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator for the iPhone can automatically extract text from a variety of sources — such as books, magazines, ads, timetables, etc. — while on the go by using the device’s camera, or retrieve data from images stored in the device’s memory. Based on ABBYY’s own award-winning Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, the utility delivers highly accurate text recognition results for 61 languages and helps users easily edit, search, translate and share information wherever they are. Via integration with Google Translate, the application supports full-text translation from 43 starting languages into more than 50 languages.
The new ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator provides a range of interface updates for user convenience, including the ability to easily turn the “crop” feature on the viewfinder and flashlight on and off.
ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator currently supports two interface languages: English and Russian. The user interface language support will be significantly extended in the next update of the program with the addition of Chinese (both traditional and simplified), German, Korean, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish.
Availability
ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator for the iPhone is available via the App Store SM (accessible through iTunes®). The compatible devices include the Apple iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (iOS 4.0 or later). For more information about the product, visit https://pdf.abbyy.com/products/mobile/text-grabber/en/.
About Mobile OCR Utilities
ABBYY TextGrabber is a flagship app of the ABBYY Mobile OCR Utilities series for the Apple iPhone that also includes ABBYY StreetGrabber, ABBYY LinkGrabber, ABBYY PhoneGrabber, and ABBYY MailGrabber. Each of them enables users to capture specific type of data and transfer it directly to the iPhone for further use, saving and easy sharing. For more information, visit https://pdf.abbyy.com/products/mobile/text-grabber/en/.