More info & screenshots coming soon!

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.

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

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

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• 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.