More info & screen­shots com­ing soon!

Doc­Scan­ner 3.0.3 for the iPhone is now avail­able! The biggest thing with the new release is that OCR data is now included to gen­er­ated PDFs.

Our goal was to make scanned PDFs search­able, yet print­able. The prob­lem with OCR using iPhone’s cam­era is the lack of qual­ity. For this rea­son we ended up hid­ing OCR data behind the scanned image. In future ver­sions we will improve the qual­ity and add pos­si­bil­i­ties to scan doc­u­ments for edit­ing. Maybe we will inte­grate with some of the pop­u­lar office apps like Doc­u­ments to Go® or Quick­of­fice at that point.

Other news fea­tures are:

• Two fin­ger ges­ture for rotat­ing pages
• Unti­tled doc­u­ments are auto­mat­i­cally named using OCR data

What’s next

Doc­Scan­ner is all the time under active devel­op­ment and we are usu­ally updat­ing the app once in month. Cur­rently we are work­ing with fol­low­ing new features.

Drop­box inte­gra­tion, sync­ing capa­bil­i­ties, tags & folders

In near future the spooler fea­ture of Doc­Scan­ner will have pos­si­bil­ity sync doc­u­ments to sup­ported ser­vices. This means that sync­ing all doc­u­ments to iDisk, Web­DAV, Ever­note, Email or Drop­box will be easy.

As we will add fea­tures for orga­niz­ing Doc­u­ments with tags and fold­ers it would be also pos­si­ble to sync only doc­u­ments in some folder or with some tag. For exam­ple you can:

1. Tag all your receipts with a tag receipt
2. Cre­ate sync rule for send­ing all doc­u­ments with tag receipt to pre-defined email
3. Every time you sync all the new scans with the tag will be auto­mat­i­cally sent.

This should make man­ag­ing e.g. you cor­po­rate credit card pur­chases bit more automatic.

Order pages, Anno­tate documents

Another thing we are exited about is the pos­si­bil­ity to edit doc­u­ments. Soon Doc­Scan­ner will have all new inter­face capa­ble of order­ing pages, com­bin­ing doc­u­ments and anno­tat­ing PDFs. Since order­ing pages is pretty self-described lets focus to anno­tat­ing PDFs.

Quite usual use case is that some­one gives you a paper form and asks you to fill the form, then email it. Another vari­a­tion of the same case is that you get and email con­tain­ing a PDF and you have to sign it, then email. In near future Doc­Scan­ner will be capa­ble of han­dling these both use cases.

The new anno­tat­ing fea­ture lets you add text fields, free draw­ings and sig­na­tures to doc­u­ments. To make this really usable we will add a way to import email attach­ment PDFs as well. In the begin­ning we will sup­port only Gmail. This is due the fact that there is no pos­si­bil­ity for third party appli­ca­tions to read emails directly from the iPhone’s Mail App.

Ver­sion 3.02

New fea­tures & improvements:

• Doc­u­ments search­able by name
• Improved edge detection
• Minor bug fixes

Ver­sion 3.01

New fea­tures & improvements:

• Rotate the doc­u­ment 90° at the edge adjust­ment phase by fin­ger ges­ture (Hold & circle)
• Lan­guage update

Since 3.0 release Doc­Scan­ner for iPhone has had a lim­ited text recog­ni­tion fea­ture that made doc­u­ments search­able. We ended up lim­it­ing the fea­ture since the qual­ity of the OCR was lim­ited. Now we have found set of workarounds and the next release of Doc­Scan­ner is going to have full OCR support.

Obvi­ously the OCR will make some errors. Qual­ity of OCR is quite good with the 3GS. With 3G and older it will make more errors. Known lim­i­ta­tions at the moment include:

• No sup­port for copy & paste (expect to have it soon)
• Poor qual­ity with 3G and older
• OCR sup­ports only Latin alh­pa­bets

As you can see in the attached PDF the rec­og­nized text is behind the the scanned image. There­fore the doc­u­ment is always good to print and read, even if the OCR has made errors. Try to select and copy text to see how OCR has done the job.

In near future we will make our best to include sup­port for Japan­ese and improve user inter­face to make it fast to use Doc­Scan­ner for cap­tur­ing text from the real world to be attached to emails, SMS mes­sages and any­where with copy & paste. Please find the attached PDF that demon­strates how it works with A4 doc­u­ment scanned with 3GS.

DocScanner-3GS-OCR-A4

If you want to help us out, please com­ment below what is your pri­mary use case for the OCR. Thanks in advance!

The Doc­Scan­ner® for iPhone is devel­op­ing fast and offers new fea­tures.
We’re always lis­ten­ing to your wishes, so please give us feed­back!

New fea­tures and improvements:

• Text in scanned doc­u­ments is now rec­og­nized and thus searchable
• Share doc­u­ments using WIFI
• Pass­word pro­tect pdf-files
• Improve­ments to image whiten­ing algorithm
• User inter­face improvements
• Mag­ni­fy­ing glass on/off
• Minor bug fixes

You can fol­low us on twit­ter.

For more info about Ever­note, please visit www.evernote.com.

Get Doc­Scan­ner® for iPhone at the App­Store.

Doc­Scan­ner 2.0.1 is now out! The new release fixes an issue with iDisk con­nec­tiv­ity, makes Doc­Scan­ner avail­able in fol­low­ing languages:

• Chi­nese
• Eng­lish
• Finnish
• French
• Ger­man
• Ital­ian
• Japan­ese
• Por­tuguese
• Russ­ian
• Span­ish

We are also happy to tell you that the next major release is com­ing this year. It will include capa­bil­ity to search text within doc­u­ments, WIFI-share and lot more.

Doc­Scan­ner 2.0 is finally avail­able in the App Store. The biggest new improve­ments are:

• New sec­ond gen­er­a­tion image enhance­ment algorithm
• Ever­note inte­gra­tion from App-to-App
• New vastly improve­ment user interface

There are also some minor bug fixes. Doc­Scan­ner 2.0 requires iPhone OS 3.1.

Sep­tem­ber was the best month ever to us and we gained about 20,000 new users. Thank you all! We are already work­ing on the next ver­sion and our devel­op­ment team has a new mem­ber. As usual, we’ll share some info about next release a bit before it is out. There will be cou­ple of mind blow­ing fea­tures in it;)

This video is from the all most final ver­sion. We’ll post another one once we get it done. Enjoy!

App Store Japan

We are pleased to announce that Doc­Scan­ner is now over­all the most gross­ing App in Japan’s App Store. Doc­Scan­ner is also num­ber one in paid busi­ness appli­ca­tions in Japan, Italy, Aus­tria and Esto­nia, and in top ten in the most of the coun­tries of the world. Thank you all for choos­ing Doc­Scan­ner. We will con­tinue to work hard to make it bet­ter. The 2.0 release is almost ready and it will be avail­able in the App Store in few weeks.