OCR Instantly Downloads & RevenueOCR Instantly · Google Play
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Updated 3 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Developerthesimplest.net
CategoryTools
PriceFree
Released
Installs100k+
Rating★ 3.6 (5.9k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: Card Wallet - CardWarden📦Version 3.2.0
Full timeline · 4 events
- 🆕OCR Instantly first spotted by AppInsiderUnited States (found via developer)
- 🆕OCR Instantly: its developer released another app: Card Wallet - CardWarden
- 📦OCR Instantly version 3.2.0- Updated OCR library from Tesseract 3.0.2 to 4.0.0 for better results. Note that all languages other than the English needs to be re-downloaded via Settings.
- Update to support devices on latest Android versions. - 🆕OCR Instantly released on Google Play
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
3.6 ★
5.9k ratings
Measured
OCR Instantly on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.thesimplest.ocr
Publisher
Mok Chun Yeen
Publisher country
Malaysia
Content rating
Everyone
OCR Instantly downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in OCR Instantly before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not on any Top Grossing chart: monthly active users × spend per user for its category, measured on the charted apps nearest the bottom of the charts.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How OCR Instantly makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
In-app purchasesAds
One-off purchases
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Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not in a Google Play top chart right now. | ||
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
3.6 ★
5.9k ratings
Measured
Ratings
5.9k
Measured
Written reviews
409
Measured
About OCR Instantly
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is a technology to convert image to text. This apps takes an image and converts it into digitized text which can then be shared to other applications such as Email and SMS, or simply copy paste the text to anywhere you like.
Full length review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5s948BJhRI
= Important Notes =
Garbage in, garbage out - make sure text is sharp and large enough for recognition.
**Make sure text is upright (horizontally aligned to the app)** Beware of camera rotation!
Handwritten text will not work.
Text on top of unclean background (images or borders/lines in excel sheet) will not work.
PDF source is not supported.
OCR for Gujarati, Persian and Punjabi is experimental and the result is very bad. You have been warned.
**Please read the in-app Help section for tips to improve OCR accuracy before leaving a bad review :) **
= Key Points =
Offline OCR
Built-in image enhancement tools
Simple to use but feature rich
Huge language support
= Pro Features =
Remove ads - Permanently removes all advertisements.
Image dewarp - Fix text lines that are wavy/bent due to curved book pages.
Save to sdcard & image share - Image/text can be saved to sdcard. Also allows sharing of enhanced image.
OCR modes - Advance OCR modes, character white/blacklist, and disable dictionary.
Paragraph scanning mode - Allows you to remove unwanted line breaks in paragraphs.
Create PDF - Creates PDF files where text can be selected and copy paste.
Text to speech - Text to speech language support. Also allows automatic text reading upon OCR.
Multi-language OCR - Perform OCR with multiple languages.
Full screen editing - Allows one to hide the image during text editing.
= Supports more than 60 languages =
Afrikaans, Albanian, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Frankish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian (Old), Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Middle English, Middle French, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish (old), Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Full length review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5s948BJhRI
= Important Notes =
Garbage in, garbage out - make sure text is sharp and large enough for recognition.
**Make sure text is upright (horizontally aligned to the app)** Beware of camera rotation!
Handwritten text will not work.
Text on top of unclean background (images or borders/lines in excel sheet) will not work.
PDF source is not supported.
OCR for Gujarati, Persian and Punjabi is experimental and the result is very bad. You have been warned.
**Please read the in-app Help section for tips to improve OCR accuracy before leaving a bad review :) **
= Key Points =
Offline OCR
Built-in image enhancement tools
Simple to use but feature rich
Huge language support
= Pro Features =
Remove ads - Permanently removes all advertisements.
Image dewarp - Fix text lines that are wavy/bent due to curved book pages.
Save to sdcard & image share - Image/text can be saved to sdcard. Also allows sharing of enhanced image.
OCR modes - Advance OCR modes, character white/blacklist, and disable dictionary.
Paragraph scanning mode - Allows you to remove unwanted line breaks in paragraphs.
Create PDF - Creates PDF files where text can be selected and copy paste.
Text to speech - Text to speech language support. Also allows automatic text reading upon OCR.
Multi-language OCR - Perform OCR with multiple languages.
Full screen editing - Allows one to hide the image during text editing.
= Supports more than 60 languages =
Afrikaans, Albanian, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Frankish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian (Old), Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Middle English, Middle French, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish (old), Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
What's new in 3.2.0
- Updated OCR library from Tesseract 3.0.2 to 4.0.0 for better results. Note that all languages other than the English needs to be re-downloaded via Settings.
- Update to support devices on latest Android versions.
- Update to support devices on latest Android versions.