There are similar apps available for other platforms but they are not free. Here I am reviewing Microsoft Translator app that is not just translating texts that are typed with keyboard, texts on images and texts spoken, but it can translate texts offline! And this app is completely free. Most impressive is OFFLINE (!!!!!!) real-time translation that works in this way that you point your Windows Phone at some text written in other language (here, French): ... and then, even if you don't have any internet connection (I have tested it! it works!), you get translations overlayed over the original...


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WorldCard Mobile is the next entry into a category filled with apps. If you enter "business card reader" into the iTunes search bar, you'll find dozens of possibilities. So what sets WorldCard Mobile apart from the competitors? Let's take a look at the options. Unlike most of the competitors, WorldCard Mobile gives you more than one option of adding contacts. Most similar apps will have you take a picture of a business card, and then use OCR to recognize the contact information, which you can then save directly to your contacts. Of course, WorldCard Mobile can do that. Character recognition...


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