In its free incarnation, you can scan, enhance and upload single or multi-page documents. This is an app that wants to make things easier for everyone - and that’s OK by us.
The icon smiles, and both interface and workflow are straightforward. In all cases, lighting was reasonable rather than perfect, in an attempt to duplicate typical conditions when scanning, rather than the ideal.įrom the off, it’s clear Scanbot wants to be the friendly face of document scanning. Each app was tested against a range of documents: a business card a book with serif type documents with bold sans-serif text and a till receipt. After all, a picture of a document is great, but being able to copy and paste the text from it is better. Bonus points were awarded for the means to scan multi-page documents and extract text via OCR (Optical Character Recognition). But which apps can do more?ĭuring testing, then, we were looking for apps that could make the job of scanning easier through edge detection and clean-up. Even Camera can take a photo of a business card, receipt or document and save it for posterity. And that’s the purpose of this group test. It’s then down to software to interpret everything. Today’s scanners are comparatively svelte, although size reductions have been limited by the paper documents they’re designed to scan: most flatbed scanners are at least A4/US letter sized, and feed scanners are a bit wider than a sheet of paper.īut there is - in theory - a better way: use your iPhone! Any reasonably recent iPhone has a perfectly decent camera that’s capable of picking out the fine details from any document you snap.
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