Use Claro ScanPen to have a photo of your printed text spoken back to you.
Claro ScanPen OCR Reader converts photos of printed text into spoken words, delivering offline read-aloud support with multi-language capabilities—ideal for exams, study, and everyday reading. It highlights text via finger or stylus and uses human-quality voices, all without internet access. Not ranked in any top lists, it maintains steady usage with 10,000+ total downloads and 59 in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Offline operation enables use in exams and areas with no connectivity
Multi-language OCR supports a broad set of languages
Text highlighting with finger or stylus offers precise control over what is read aloud
Human-quality voices provide natural-sounding speech for reading and study
Some devices may experience compatibility issues
Requires camera and storage permissions to OCR printed text
Broad permission set may raise privacy considerations for some users
About Claro ScanPen OCR Reader
Claro ScanPen OCR Reader is an education app developed by Claro Software Ltd.
How many times has Claro ScanPen OCR Reader been downloaded?
Claro ScanPen OCR Reader has been downloaded 31 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 59 times.
What is the rating of Claro ScanPen OCR Reader?
Claro ScanPen OCR Reader is rated 4.06 out of 5 stars, based on 120 ratings.
Is Claro ScanPen OCR Reader free?
Claro ScanPen OCR Reader is free to download. The APK download size is 4.51 MB. The latest version available is 2.3.14. The last update was on September 8, 2023.
What are the requirements for Claro ScanPen OCR Reader?
Claro ScanPen OCR Reader requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play October 2016.
Description
Need to listen to printed text spoken aloud - at school, in a test or exam, at work or at home? Use Claro ScanPen to photo your printed text document, letter, test paper - then select the text with your finger or (stylus), and hear it spoken straight back to you. Instantly! No internet connection required.
Claro ScanPen advances read aloud support. It gives access to printed text materials, exam papers and documents for all, in a wide range of languages. Using your Android Phone, or Tablet, simply:
• Highlight with your finger or stylus which section of text you want to hear spoken to you. • Listen as Claro ScanPen instantly reads the text back to you using a human quality voice in a language of your choice.
With your finger (or stylus) you can highlight all of the text, word by word or line by line. Tap anywhere to stop the speech.
Claro ScanPen app has no access to the internet or any reference material like dictionary or thesaurus, so is perfect to use as a read aloud tool under exam and test conditions, helping students who cannot read text very well (e.g. students with dyslexia) to listen to the exam test paper questions and information. It can also be used for quickly converting class handout materials, printed presentations, instructions, books - in fact anything containing printed texts. Great for independent access and learning.
Claro ScanPen uses the latest Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to convert your picture into text and uses Android system voices to read the text back to you. The OCR in Claro ScanPen fully supports the recognition of text in the following languages:
• English • Danish • Dutch • French • German • Italian • Norwegian • Portuguese • Spanish • Swedish
Simply select the voice that matches the language of your text to hear it read back correctly.
***Minimum camera spec: 2MP***
If you require any product support please email us at support@clarosoftware.com.
Currently not wokring on some devices, this is a Google issue and they are working on it as fast as possible, if you are having trouble though please contact us using the above email.
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This app is working very good. Please add telugu voice and support for scan telugu language. Thank you.
★★★★☆Joshua Hori· Feb 18, 2017
Quite handy in a pinch for android users. Make sure the paper is flat and there shouldn't be problems with conversions from image to text; curves tend to make sentences interesting as they mix and match. Would like access to the LED for quicker focus when in dark areas, its disabled when I try to turn it on. Would also like to request a line for guidance when taking images of text for alignment purposes.
★★★★★Andrew Stout· Jun 6, 2024
Probably the most effective and easy to use OCR reader available for phones. Always recommend this to students with Dyslexia and other reading difficulties.
★★★★★Mindy Cawley· Dec 13, 2016
Works very well for free Was going to buy a $280 scanning pen for my dyslexic daughter buy this does the trick for free.
★★★★★Dawn Smith· Apr 23, 2022
The app is awesome! It helps me hopes me overcome my disability when reading hard-copy documents, instructions, magazines, and more. The only drawback to the app is that it does not read handwriting.
★☆☆☆☆Chloe Dupuis· Nov 24, 2019
It was fine at first but know there's been so many problems, it freezes, the app keeps closing and know it won't even read. I actually had to uninstall and install it but know it won't work at all. So I wouldn't recommend this app.
★☆☆☆☆Jacqui D· May 18, 2018
It keeps displaying message no text detected. Had such high hopes for this,
now deeply disappointed. I'll just have to uninstall.
★☆☆☆☆Lauren· May 16, 2018
Unfortunately this Android version of a great iOS app is terrible. Very basic flaw...it can't detect text in images! Images are very clear. Obviously something has gone wrong.
★★☆☆☆miliana herrera· Apr 18, 2018
It was awesome in the beginning. But then every time I would try to take a
picture of a paper it would say there would be no words detected .even
though the picture of the document was very clear. It's been doing this for
a while now, and I deleted it and download it again. And it still wouldn't
work when I try to make it read.
Google Play Rankings for Claro ScanPen OCR Reader
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Technologies used by Claro ScanPen OCR Reader
8 permissions·5 libraries
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Trust & Safety: Uses standard Android permissions (e.g., CAMERA, INTERNET, READ/WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WAKE_LOCK, BILLING). The app can operate offline, reducing data transmission, but camera access and storage permissions are required for OCR. For support, contact Claro Software Ltd at support@clarosoftware.com.
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