Prizmo,+ReadIris,+Voice+Dream,+PDF+Expert

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Prizmo
Prizmo is a very useful app for "scanning" documents (using the iPad camera), recognizing the text using a very good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine, and then reading the text out loud using high-quality synthesized voices. It can also export PDF files using the recognized text.

The latest version now supports the new iOS 8 features of Extensions and Documents. There aren't a lot of apps that support Extensions yet, but there will be. Extensions will allow other apps on the iPad to use Prizmo's scanning, OCR, and read-out-loud functions without leaving the app. For example, you could be in Pages, and grab a snapshot of a book page, OCR it, and bring it into your Pages document without ever leaving Pages. [|Prizmo: About page]

Readiris
Readiris also has a good OCR engine, and allows you to "scan" and convert paper documents to digital files in a variety of formats. It is probably better than Prizmo for documents (like textbook pages) with complicated layouts. You have to import the images from photo library - it doesn't take pictures from inside the app. It supports Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Docs fo export. [|Readiris] [|Readiris from Canon]

voicedream
[|voice dream] is a simple and great-sounding read-out-loud app for all kinds of documents: PDF, ePub, DAISY, Word.