Just wanted to let you know that DocScanner 3.4.2 is now out and support for Dropbox is finally there.
May 11
May 01
Greetings for Stockholm, Sweden. I just wanted to announce that DocScanner 3.4.1 for the iPhone is now released. This minor release fixes some issues with iDisk and WebDAV integrations and speeds them up. This release also added a possibility to turn off automatic portrait/landscape view with the documents. As always we are busy developing a new release of DocScanner. This time we include new features like:
- Annotating Documents
- Google Docs integration
- Dropbox integration (we will likely release this before big 3.6 release) UPDATE: We included this in 3.4.2
We have not forgotten Android and S60 too. Android is going to have new release in this month (UPDATE: DocScanner 1.3 for Android was released 19th May 2010) and S60 in the next.
Best,
Tuomas
Apr 21
We have received lots of questions about iDisk settings. Most of the problems are caused by setting username to email causing DocScanner to give error: “402 Payment Required”. So please set up iDisk username as follows:
If your email is john.smith@me.com your user name is john.smith
Apr 20
You can rotate the document with a rotating two-finger gesture at the phase, when the document edges are defined.
Apr 19
DocScanner 3.4 is now available with huge improvements!
The new DocScanner update offers you a more user friendly experience and of course,
it makes DocScanner truly the best scanning app available!
The new DocScanner update offers you a more user friendly experience and of course,
it makes DocScanner truly the best scanning app available!
New & improved features:
- Copy OCR’d text to clipboard
- Copy pages between documents
- Reorder pages
- Synchronize multiple documents to various services
- Enhanced iDisk setup
- Resize documents
- Send individual pages
- Major UI improvements
- Connect to Evernote via Evernote API
- Support for tagging documents
Apr 06
Sending Documents to Evernote 3.3.1 opens this screen due the problem
The latest Evernote 3.3.1 iPhone App broke down the integration between DocScanner and Evernote iPhone App. If you try to send scanned documents to Evernote by tapping “Send to Evernote” in DocScanner, Evernote will open to default first view and lose the document.
We are currently working with Evernote to solve this problem ASAP. If you wan’t to keep DocScanner -> Evernote integration functional please do not update Evernote App before we find a way to fix this. While the integration is down, you can send documents to Evernote via email, here is how.
DocScanner 3.4 will be released on the next week and it will have direct Evernote synchronization feature that does not depend in this App-to-App integration and with this new version users who have already updated to Evernote 3.3.1 will be able to use our favourite second brain, Evernote once more. Sorry for the inconvenience. We’ll update here once this issue is fixed.
UPDATE: The problem with Evernote integration is now fixed. Evernote 3.3.2 will be released in few days and it will bring the integration back alive. We will update here once it hits the App Store.
Hi,
The problem with Evernote integration is now fixed. Evernote 3.3.2 will be released in few days and it will bring the integration back alive. I will let you know once it hits the App Store. Thanks for your patience.
Best,
Tuomas
Feb 08
More info & screenshots coming soon!
Feb 02
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:
- Tag all your receipts with a tag receipt
- Create sync rule for sending all documents with tag receipt to pre-defined email
- 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.
Jan 22
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
Jan 19
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.
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