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DocScannerCurrent Version: 4.0.1

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DocScanner enables users to scan documents on the road. DocScanner vastly improves the quality of camera shot by fixing geometry, removing shadows, fixing white balance and by sharpening the image. DocScanner is great for collecting paper documents, whiteboards and recipes to your iPhone. DocScanner creates standard size (A4, Letter, etc.) PDF-documents as well as image files. Now with the OCR support collected data is also searchable making DocScanner ideal tool for going paperless!

**Since 3.0.3 DocScanner has OCR capability. DocScanner is the only Scanner app with OCR capability.

With DocScanner you can:
* Create high quality multipage PDF-files
* Transfer your scanned documents to Mac or PC with WIFI
* Send documents as email
* Quit carrying paper documents
* Take high quality notes from whiteboards and sketchbooks with minimal effort
* Take your note taking to new level using Evernote integration

Image processing happens within the iPhone as well as OCR. Internet connection is NOT needed and you confidential data is not sent to any third parties. Scanning a document with DocScanner is faster than using a flatbed scanner.

Features:
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Text is searchable and recognized in scanned PDFs
- Automatic Edge Detection
- Automatic Perspective and Rotation Correction
- Supported file formats: PDF, JPG
- Multipage Document Support
- Internal Document Viewer
- Native Mail App integration (Send scanned documents using iPhones native mail application)
- iDisk, Evernote and WebDAV Support
- WIFI Share - download scanned documents with your browser
- Image Library integration
- Fast and Secure: all image processing is done within the iPhone. No Internet connection is needed and you data is not sent to third parties
- Produce B&W or Color documents

We are always happy to help and hear your thoughts. Our contacts:
Email: support@norfello.zendesk.com
Twitter: @docscannerapp
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/DocScanner/248619394175
Feedback Forum: http://docscanner.uservoice.com
Blog: http://docscannerapp.com
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DocScanner Review

Scanning app doesn’t surpass what you’d get using the iPhone’s camera

by John Brandon, Macworld.com

The best iPhone apps perform a unique, powerful function that’s hard to mimic. DocScanner, which portends to scan a document in the same way a flatbed scanner captures a document in high-resolution, does not exactly fit in this indispensable category.


A Scanner in Your Pocket: DocScanner can capture documents on your iPhone, but the app doesn’t really do anything that can’t already be done with the phone’s built-in camera.
The major complaint: the $9 app from Norfello Oy does not really do anything beyond what the iPhone’s built-in Camera app does. You snap a picture and can send it by e-mail. You can also configure the page size of scanned docs, and adjust brightness and contrast, or convert to grayscale. DocScanner does not convert documents to text, won’t let you to edit the quality of a scan—to make the text characters look more readable, for example—and adds only a few extras beyond just snapping a picture.

One such extra is the ability to convert a document into PDF or JPEG, which you can then send by e-mail. File sizes run about 800K for a standard all-text document, such as a lease agreement. JotNot (), a similar app that only costs $5, creates slightly larger but much more readable docs.

In DocScanner, you can combine scans into one file, but only when you save them to the Camera roll, not DocScanner’s built-in Documents folder, which is odd. You can edit the page size and trim documents to size by dragging thin purple cropping bars—but they are harder to use than JotNot’s. When flipping through scanned images, DocScanner sometimes has a hard time moving to the next image—it’s as though the current image gets stuck. A recent update adds the ability to zoom scanned documents, but the core problem with DocScanner remains—there’s not enough here to compete with a desktop scanner.

I recommend skipping DocScanner and just using the iPhone camera to capture documents and send them by e-mail. You’ll save some money and the results will look roughly the same.

DocScanner is compatible with any iPhone running the iPhone 3.0 software update.

[John Brandon is a 20-year veteran Mac user who used to run an all-Mac graphics department.]

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