Claro ScanPen Premium4.0.15 - App Store

Need to listen to printed text spoken aloud - at school, in a test 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 Premium is free to use for either 10 scans, or for 14 days when you sign up to the annual auto-renewing subscription (which you're free to cancel at any time). When you have an active subscription you can download as many premium voices as you need for no extra cost. Our premium voices are currently Nuance Vocalizer and Acapela. If you want to purchase ScanPen outright and buy any extra voices, search the App Store for our standard version called "Claro ScanPen".

Claro ScanPen advances reading aloud support. It gives access to printed text materials and documents for all, in a wide range of languages. Using your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, simply:

. Take a photo of the text or select a photo of the text document from your camera roll.
. 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 can also be used with the built in iOS VoiceOver accessibility feature, allowing low vision and blind users to access text.

Claro ScanPen has no access to the internet or any reference material, so is perfect to use as a computer reader 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.

Claro ScanPen uses the latest premium Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to convert your picture into text and uses iOS 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. Claro ScanPen is a great addition to the popular Claro Reading and Writing support apps ClaroSpeak and ClaroPDF.

Claro ScanPen does not require internet access to function and does not store any photographs taken within the ScanPen App. Explore using the Apple iOS Guided Access feature to lock the iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone into a single app, for more secure and controlled usage. Tap iOS Settings > General > Accessibility > Guided Access to set up Guided Access.

***Minimum camera spec: 2MP***

If you require any product support please email us at support@clarosoftware.com.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
. Purchase an annual subscription for $9.99 to use ScanPen with unlimited number of scans and ability to download and use our full range of premium TTS voices.
. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.
. The app offers a free 14 day free trial. At the end of the trial period, the full price of the subscription will be charged. Cancellations must occur 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 for more information.
. Our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use can be found at https://www.clarosoftware.com/legal

Version History Fixes an issue on iPhone where Sign in with Google was missing from the log in page. 4.0.15 02/24/2025 Fixed a bug where some add-on voices were not displaying correctly in the settings menu. 4.0.11 10/16/2023 Fixes a bug with newer iPhone models not using the correct lens when up close. 4.0.6 03/23/2023 * New Google OCR engine
Improves OCR speed and accuracy.
More supported languages.

* Focus mode
A new setting that helps to eliminate distractions and increase your focus.
When this setting is enabled, all the other text in the app will be dimmed.

* Updated UI icons 4.0.3 06/07/2022 Fixed an issue with the delete scan button location. 3.1.2 12/20/2021 Fixes a bug with the photos from library sometimes being imported in the wrong order. 3.0.12 07/12/2021 Fixes an issue with some voices not loading correctly. 3.0.11 03/02/2021 Minor bug fixes 3.0.10 03/01/2021 Adds some missing settings text translations. 3.0.8 02/16/2021 You can now export your scans as text using the Share button!

ScanPen can now highlight each individual word as it is being spoken.

Mutli-image mode, share button and copy text to clipboard are now all enabled by default. You can disable these in the iOS Settings app under Claro ScanPen.

Adds a new colour picker to allow the user to choose a higher range of highlight colours to aid readability.

Improved voice range: adds a range of new voices available for in-app purchase. 3.0.7 02/02/2021 Fixes a bug where some photos in user created albums were sometimes not appearing. 2.1.1 12/04/2020 Minor bug fixes 2.1.0 11/09/2020 Minor bug fixes 2.0.15 10/14/2020 Bug fixes. 2.0.14 12/13/2019 Bug fixes. 2.0.13 12/11/2019 Bug fixes. 2.0.10 12/06/2019 Enhancements for iOS 13. 2.0.9 11/21/2019 Bug fixes. 1.9.25 07/23/2019 Six new Acapela kids voices (French, Norwegian and Swedish) available as optional add-ons. 1.9.24 06/17/2019 Fixes a UI layout issue on larger iPads. 1.9.12 12/19/2018 Minor bug fixes 1.9.11 08/29/2018 Minor bug fixes. 1.9.10 08/28/2018 Tap to speak - you can now tap to select sentences or words to speak them.

Highlight words - a new setting that will highlight individual words as they are spoken so you can see follow the text as it is being spoken. 1.9.8 08/20/2018 Fixes a crash that could occur when purchasing a voice from the Store. 1.8.37 08/02/2018 Fixes an issue with the camera sometimes not being started correctly on older versions of iOS. 1.8.36 05/22/2018