Smart Engines

3.4
AndroidGoogle Play

What it actually doesA mobile app for on-device document recognition (passports, IDs, bank cards) and barcodes using neural network algorithms. It works fast and accurately but is unstable on weak devices and frequently makes errors.

55%Marketing ≈ reality45%Stability

Actually does

  • OCR / Document scan85% of reviews
  • Barcode Scanning15% of reviews
  • Document scanner75% of reviews
  • Offline-first20% of reviews
  • Распознавание банковских карт10% of reviews
  • Распознавание паспортов65% of reviews

Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews

  • No telemetry
  • Распознавание номеров машин

Common complaints

  • Text and digit recognition errors35% of mentions

    «Recognizes printed text with errors. Just a jumble of letters and doesn't even try to match similar words. Even where the number 2 is clearly visible, it wrote the number 9.»

  • Crashes and freezes on low-end devices25% of mentions

    «Often crashes on cheap smartphones, Android Go 8.1. The app launches and freezes almost immediately. Deleted it.»

  • Suspicion of sending data to servers15% of mentions

    «This app collects your data and sends it to the developer. All our data is immediately sent to your server.»

  • No authenticity verification, insufficient functionality20% of mentions

    «Does the app have counterfeit detection? It just reads the data and displays it as a list, there's no analysis of that data.»

  • Unable to copy or export results15% of mentions

    «No text copying. So what's next? How am I supposed to use this data further?»

What people praise

  • High accuracy in document recognition

    «Recognizes excellently. Sometimes makes minor mistakes but it's not critical. There's nothing better than this.»

  • Fast recognition on mobile processors

    «For a lightweight pipeline it works really great, extremely fast. It runs on mobile processors.»

  • Support for a wide range of documents

    «Excellently recognizes all listed documents. Recognizes police IDs.»

  • Impressive technology, good idea

    «Tested it out of general interest. Really pleased with the results. Finally someone actually finished this idea.»

  • All computations on device (as claimed)

    «Uncompromising security, all algorithms are executed directly on the device.»

Where to install