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Work · January 31, 2019

Excerpt for iOS

Convert physical books into digital notes

Excerpt for iOS launched on January 31, 2019 with 82 votes, #468 of 2,587 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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What it does

• Using your device's camera, instantly convert text from a book into a note on your device • Share important excerpts with friends and colleagues • Compile all of a book's excerpts and export them in a single file • Save excerpts from as many books as you like • Choose your highlighter colour – yellow, blue, green, or none

Download Excerpt - The Book Highlighter by Ryan Maksymic on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like Excerpt - The Book…

Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS. I really love this app except it’s simple and clean. Easy to capture text. Exporting into a pdf is, again, easy. But I have one major complain. When capturing, the options are at the top of the screen. Which means you can’t just hold your phone with one hand. You have to move your hand to a different potion to hold the phone to then make the selection. All the options to capture text and add page numbers etc should be at the bottom of the screen. So when you’re reading a book you can just grab your phone and not have to contort your hand around. We should also have the option of having the options to capture on the left…from apps.apple.com

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