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.