This page refers to an old version of DocScanner. It is not up to date. It will be updated soon.
Preparation
Make sure you have high contrast on the document and it’s background.
If necessary, use a table lamp etc. to optimize the scanning result.
1. Select “New document” in the Documents page.
2. Take a picture of the whole document with some background visible.
Edge detection works best, if you use a high contrast single color background.
3. Verify that edges have been correctly detected.
If the edge detection miscalculates a corner, you can drag it to match
the documents edges by pointing at the pink line with your finger.
You can rotate the document by holding one finger and then making a circle.
4. Verify paper size.
5. Press the Scan button and wait a second.
6. To adjust the color, brightness and contrast, press the settings button.
7. Make the desired adjustments and press “Save”. Check the processed image and press the action button 
when pleased with the result.
8. The page has been scanned. Add pages by pressing
9. Press 
, to rename the document. You can also add a password protection.
10. You may now choose to:
- Save the document to DocScanner
- Send it to your camera roll
- Send it via e-mail as an JPG- or an PDF-file
- Send it to Evernote
Sharing
DocScanner® will open it’s own server and thus can be browsed with any webbrowser. You may preview and download documents with the WiFi.
Spooler (Text recognition)
You can get the text recognised and searchable by running the documents in the Spooler. After the recognition has been done, you can search for words within the documents and the matching words will be highlighted.
Setting up WebDAV
1. Go to the Settings
2. Choose “Add WebDAV account”
3. Set the WebDAV’s url, your name, password and description
(Any name you want for the WebDAV)
4. Test the connection by pressing the “Test connection” -button
Examples:
Box.net:
If your Box.net username is john@doe.com and password is password try this:
address: http://www.box.net/dav/
name: john@doe.com
password: password
description: Box.net
(Description is just a name visible in the user interface.)
If it works you can change address to more accurate destination:
http://www.box.net/dav/path/to/docs or https://www.box.net/dav/Documents
If it doesn’t work, try the address with web browser (Safari or Firefox).
When “Test connection” button says “Connection was successful”, next try to send one page document with wi-fi connection.
Sometimes long multipage documents just can’t be sent with a slow connection.
MyDisk.se:
If your MyDisk.se username is john1980 and password is password try this:
address: http://mydisk.se/john1980/
name: john1980
password: password
description: MyDisk.se
(Description is just a name visible in the user interface.)
If it doesn’t work, try the address with web browser (Safari or Firefox).
In DocScanner™ 2.0 there is a bug that MyDisk.se gives you an warning (picture below).
The warning can be ignored, for it will work although. The bug will be fixed on the next update.
Dear Norfello Oy,
I’ve bought your application for my iPhone 3Gs “DocScanner” but when I tried to configure in the “setting” mode my WebDAV account I can’t do it. Would you please explain what I have to do, how I have to fill the “address” and the “name” and the “password”? Should I use the same account as my personal account on my mail box, for example on TISCALI?
Thank uou
Mario Vetri
Catania
Italy
Hi Mario,
To use WebDAV you will need a WebDAV account. WebDAV can be used to send files to remote server. For instance Mobile.me iDisk is WebDAV. If you have Mobile.me account you can use it.
For example:
If your mobile.me username is john1980 and password is password try this:
address: http://idisk.mac.com/john1980
name: john1980
password: pass word
description: My iDisk
(Description is just a name visible in the user interface.)
Hope this helps
Hello,
I tried to set up my mobile me access as indicated without any luck. It keeps saying resources not available or an error of some sort to that nature. Can you please advise? If I copy the link and paste it in Safari on my iphone it connects fine to idisk. But through the scanner it won’t reven identify that it exists. Furthermore the http:// with two back slashes are fine the first time. when you save the link and reenter the idisk configuration page, there is only one back slash and the other is gone.
Thanks,
James
Hi James!
Thank you for the feedback.
We changed the iDisk configuration for the version 2.0.
You no longer have to enter the “http://idisk.mac.com/username” – instead, you can leave the address field empty (The DocScanner™ will use the root folder).
Please have a look in the renewed instructions page for more.
hi. How do i save more pages in one pdf-file?
Hi,
After scanning page 1 press “Save to DocScanner” then press “+” to add pages. When you are done you can send it as pdf.
I bought the docscanner 2.00 for my iphone it does not install it on my iphone is 3G 8G 3.1.2
where does it save documents to on idisc, what is the root folder.
Hi,
Having purchased this I do not seem to be able to rotate documents during creation of a new scan.
Where should I look to do this?
Thank you
It is shameful that we do not have the feature yet. It will be added to next version.
Not shameful.. never be so hard on your efforts.
You have added it and I am immensely pleased!
If there is any chance of switching on a preconfigured default e-mail recipient; that would be an incredible plus – perhaps for a paid upgrade?
You have given the option for custom page sizes which is an excellent addition. Can you add the option to set the pixel width and height to a custom size. I find that with business cards (3.5 inches wide by 2 inches high) the ideal pixel setting is 450×350.In version 3.0 I have to keep inserting this as a custom option rather than being able to set it in the custom paper size page and keep the predefined size. Please can you add this option? The main use is in putting cards into Evernote at 450×350 they fit the iphone screen are readable and limit the upload size to ensure it doesn’t take up too much server space.
how can I restore backup from PC ?
Plesa help me, ASAP
Thank you
I assume you are asking how to restore iPhone from backup? Please find the following link: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Hi ,
I have just bought DocSacnner yesterday, is it possible to send the documents to my google docs directly or to synchronise ?
Fabio, Portugal
There is a problem with the custom paper size option. When I put in 2.75″ (w) x 4.25″ (h), it accepts it, but when I leave that screen and return it has eliminated the fractional portion of the measurements (i.e., it shows 2.00 x 4.00). The result is a distorted image. I assume this is a bug that I hope will be fixed soon. My primary reason for buying this is to scan receipts, which are rarely full page in size.
Thanks!
This seems nice and OCR works surprisingly well so far. However I wished it would be a more straight forward process. Worse – I don’t see a way to forward just the scanned text results.
If I convert and mail just a simple paragraph it creates a 1MB PDF document (that is searchable in google docs) whereas the text is maybe 100 words (=a few bytes).
Please give an option to export just the OCR result. Thanks.
Crashes everytime you try accessing by share type in the UL then User Then Pasword and Blink Progam crashes Start it Backup Do the above again crashes
I can’t hold the camera still. Every shot is blurred. Any suggestions?
By the way – your manual is super… except that it’s missing !
Thanks for pointing this out;) Sorry, our bad:( We will improve this soon.
Once I have it on my iphone, so far I found no way to delete a document. Is there none? With time the list of scanned documents will pile up.
Hello Ernst!
There is three variations, of how to delete a document. Please have a look to this video: How to delete a document?
Did I misunderstand the wifi feature? Can I transfer a document from my iphone to my mac via wifi? If so I have not been able to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Just purchased and I can’t find the spooler button
The app does the ocr to create a text file, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to send the text file. The only two file formats to mail are pdf and jpg. Am I missing something here? What is the point of the ocr function if you can’t send the text file?
Hi, I’m trying to use my WebDAV server to upload my scanned documents but I always get the error “Could not authenticate to server: ignored Negotiate challenge, ignored NTLM challenge”. I had tested my WebDAV server (using exactly the same URL, name and password) with other iphone solutions and all of them work except for DocScanner.
My WebDAV server is running in IIS 7.5, I would like to know if there is a trick that I can use in order to make it work on DocScanner because your tool has many great features that I would like to use at the office.
Thanks in advanced.
Jesús Romero
hello,
i have the same problem with my Webdav in IIS 7.5
it’s very strange because i can connect in this webdav with an another iphone app
I am a new user. It works great all the way to the “action button”. When I hit the email button I get “sorry, in app mail not available”. I don’t even know where to go from there.
Does the email function need to be set up before attempting to send or what?
Jo
Hi, I had one problem with scanning and OCR recently, and wasn’t sure if there was a fix. The shape and size of my doc was such that I had to turn the camera 90 degrees from normal, and so when I did OCR it (not surprisingly) didn’t recognize much of anything. Is there a way to rotate an image in Docscanner? If not, it might be a useful feature.