Summary Z-ChatBook & Summaries Reviews

Update Nov 11, 2021: lol so much for “our current plan is to continue to offer everything free” imagine my surprise when I updated SummaryZChatBookSummaries, went to check the “improvements” and suddenly had to pay $15/month to scan pages. I mean awesome that I have bold and italic in my notes now I guess, when they also took away the ability to keyword search within highlights.

April 18, 2021: (two stars) When I first downloaded SummaryZChatBookSummaries a year ago it was everything I could ever want. It was accurate in its scanning and let me keep all my underlined and highlighted book passages in one place. Support was responsive when I emailed to ask if bold and italic text was on the horizon.

However, in the past few months it’s gotten buggy to the point of being almost unusable. It’s so bad I’ve been scouring the internet for a suitable replacement. I’m wondering if the developers have abandoned SummaryZChatBookSummaries for their newer, paid app, which I tried (that one has bold and italic text options) but immediately canceled and deleted because I have no interest in any of its features besides storing book passages, which is why, in theory, I have SummaryZChatBookSummaries.

Regardless, it’s still the best I’ve found at what it does and I’ve managed to find some workarounds for the most frustrating issues, so it does get a couple stars.

This is absolutely an app I’d be willing to pay for — probably not a subscription but certainly a one-time fee — if it was as functional as it could be.

Dear developer,

I am a very lazy person. So I want things work efficiently. I find out SummaryZChatBookSummaries work efficiently among the bunch of scan apps on AppStore.
Great way to copy books. On iPad Pro, the screen size is not actually fit. Once the photo is taken from the book, there is a way to export texts through other apps. What I want hope is that I could export those texts into GoodNotes. It will save much time. I hope so. I hope you guys can corporate with GoodNotes or something like that to make this feature that I suggested.

Extremely useful for taking book notes of my favorite stuff.

I pressed on the allow access to camera and all photos but all that shows up is a black screen. When I press the button to take a picture it takes the picture but I can’t see what I’m taking a picture of. Is this a tech issue? I heard really good things about SummaryZChatBookSummaries and am confused!

SummaryZChatBookSummaries is super annoying because it goes to the next page even if you’re not ready. I have students of all different reading levels and they all read at different speeds. Some of them take notes to help them retain what they read. There should not be an auto flip feature at all!! It’s very rude and annoying.

Amazing OCR accuracy.
Ability to read others’ summary is great

Had a question about how to edit text that was inaccurately scanned into a note (no, too many errors to correct using just an iPhone keyboard). Never got response.

Also, instructions are lacking on how to scan pages from a book without creating a zillion individual notes (or how to consolidate those notes into one manuscript).

NOT happy. Deleting app.

Man I take so many pictures of book pages.

Great tool, higly recommend if you are a book reader!

What is the quote extends across two pages, front and back? Duh!
And why not, instead of cropping your picture to choose the text, which you always have to edit, allow the user to finger swipe the area I want to OCR.
Come on!

It’s great for kids and adults. I love it.

Love It

Launch app.
Scroll.
What do I see? Mike Robinson Obozo. NO THANKS!!

I like SummaryZChatBookSummaries so much.
برنامج مفيد ورائع يمكنك من تسجيل مقتطفات قراءاتك وملاحظاتك..بحيث تستطيع الوصول لها بسهولة..بدل النسيان و تكون مثلي اقعد افكر انا قرات هالكتاب او لا ! هالفقرة الجميلة كانها مارة علي!..
I hope the programmers added converter to pdf for the highlights, ideas and quotes. That will be amazing.Thanks.

I love the features of SummaryZChatBookSummaries - I’m surprised an app like this exists, with all the features I was looking for. But, it doesn’t let me export data (or maybe it does and I don’t know?) out of it so I can store it on a note taking web app to view on my computer. There is only one email address to give feedback and that seems to be a wrong one. Idk how else to give feedback.