Performs OCR and recognizes over 50 languages. Cannot read handwriting, but does a decent job with printed materials.

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CamScanner helps you scan, store, sync and collaborate on various contents across smartphones, tablets and computers. OCR (optical character recognition) extracts texts inside single page for further editing or .txt sharing (available in paid app only).
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Designed for both iPhone and iPad. Translation into many different languages available using OCR'd text.
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Use BrowZine to easily find, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available from the WU Libraries, or through Open Access publishers, covering all disciplines.
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Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages.
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Evernote for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch is the modern workspace that syncs between all of your devices. Work everywhere and stay productive.
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MindMaple for iPad is a fast and intuitive way of organizing and prioritizing information for project management, brainstorming sessions, idea sharing, drafting lesson plans, taking lecture notes, problem solving, managing schedules and more.
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*** MindMeister is the companion app of the collaborative mind mapping site MindMeister.com ***
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Capture your thoughts directly on mind maps, turn them into presentations on the fly, and share them with others. Synchronize your maps to the cloud, from any device.
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Mohiomap is a visualization tool for your personal cloud space. We currently support Google Drive, Evernote, and Dropbox. Mohiomap allows you to visually navigate your cloud from a single interface, search through all services at the same time, and open the original documents in the native apps.
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PaperShip is an iPad, iPhone and Mac application designed to give you access to your Mendeley / Zotero library on-the-go.
Enjoy annotating your PDFs with highlights, notes, free text, drawings and much more!
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Zed Lite gives you access to your Zotero reference database on-the-go.
- View your personal and group libraries
- Browse collections
- Search your entire database
- View references
- View call numbers (if stored in the database)
- Share references and URLs to other apps, email references
- Download attachments (using default browser and PDF reader)
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Mendeley is a free reference manager and PDF reader designed for researchers, students, and academics. Whether you're writing your dissertation, organising your literature for easy retrieval, or need to read journal articles on the go, Mendeley can help.
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