This update fixes bugs with the brightness and contrast sliders, paper size adjustment and the documents send to Dropbox or Google Docs now have .pdf extension.
Brightness and contrast sliders In the early versions users had to press a button to update the adjustemts with the sliders, but now the sliders work in realtime and you can see the results as you make adjustments.
Paper size adjustment
This bugfix enables users adjust what the function actually was ment for. Before this, the adjustment was overridden and the result wasn’t correct.
Google Docs and the Dropbox .pdf extension
There has been reported issues with this one, but now the documents will have the .pdf extension and opens as a pdf -file.
If you have problems taking (sharp, focused) photos with DocScanner v4.0 on iPhone, use the Camera App to take picture, then import images from the photo album to DocScanner.
4.0.1 update is now available. If you have iPhone 3G with ios 4, you should go to Settings and turn on “Standard Image Picker” option. Next update 4.0.2 will fix some other issues.
Where you choose document edges you have now an option to adjust document page dimensions. Use button in top right corner of the screen to adjust document page dimensions
Use paper size types to define document page dimensions.
Create new paper size types. DocScanner offers by default some commonly used paper size types like A4 and Letter but you can also create and use your own.
Camera Button added. Phones that uses Android 1.5 or older platforms use only DocScanners own camera to take picture. Newer platforms can use phones own camera applications. DocScanners camera uses track ball to take picture and some android phone types doesn't have track ball hence the new button.
Changes
Version 1.54
Minor bug fixes
User Interface made smoother and added information that notify views when something has changed
We just sent a major update of DocScanner iPhone to Apple for review. Pretty much every corner of DocScanner got improved. Here are the Highlights of DocScanner 4.0 release:
- Support for Google Docs
- Improved Dropbox support
- iOS4 compatibility and improvements
- AutoShoot – DocScanner finds the documents in the camera in real time and shoots the image when iPhone is stable and document is in the finder.
- Possibility to alter scanning options in the middle of the scanning process.
- Original photos are saved for later editing
- Smaller JPG and PDF files
- Improvements with OCR
- PDF tags
- Improvements in page ordering user experience
On this video you’ll see a short demo of the use of DocScanner on Android Nexus One.
The version we initially launced had some critical bugs that have been fixed for a while now. The current version has got an integration to Google Docs as well.
We get tons of questons of why DocScanner for Android isn’t available in the Android Market. The problem is, that the Android market doesn’t offer paid applications to every country. Here’s a list of countries where you can buy DocScanner:
This video shows how to read a document with SayText.
Thank you all, for your feedback and questions – here’s some answers to the most common guestions:
Does SayText work on iPhone 3GS?
Yes, it does. We assume, that SayText works better with the iPhone 4, but we havn’t got one yet to try it out.
Does it come for other platforms too?
Right now we’re focusing on the iPhone version, but perhaps later we’ll develop versions for other popular platforms as well.
Does it support other languages, than english?
Not yet, but we’ll look into it and we’ll probably get translations for the most common languages. Japanese, chinese, korean and cyrillic text are a bit tricky for the OCR, but we might get those too in a few months – no promises though.
Few minutes ago we released new Android version of DocScanner (1.50) This new version adds Google Docs integration. Now you can send documents directly to Google Docs.
Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems. Data storage of any files up to 1GB each in size was introduced on January 13, 2010.
-Wikipedia
One more reason to use Google Docs is that it makes OCR to the scanned docs. Google Docs also plays nice with Android.
Many of our Android users have been angry for a reason after downloading DocScanner 1.2 for Android. Sorry for the inconvenience. There was a nasty bug that caused crashing with latest Android devices.
Now we have fixed these issues in DocScanner 1.3 for Android. In near future we are about to add new features to the Android version. These will include Google Docs support that is also coming up to DocScanner iPhone.
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