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[soulatrium]

I've been doing my "scanning" without any 3rd party apps. Photo Stream makes it pretty darn easy. I just take the picture, and when I get to my computer I open up iPhoto and do what I like with the picture (often putting it in Evernote).

[Jasonmwa]

I started my "save the trees" campaign late last year. I tested a few and found Scanner Pro to me my app of choice! I've tried to get my office (a clinical department in a hospital) to go paperless but it seems they only produce more. They print a schedule, say, and I use Scanner Pro to snap a pic and upload it to a folder in Dropbox which I share with my coworkers so they can access their shifts from their own devices. I've also scanned and uploaded important memos, correspondences and other pages of note so they can be shared with everyone via the cloud, no need to use my computer as proxy.

While I like Scanner Pro, it cannot cover my needs at home. I use an all-in-one to do major scanning still: mail before I shred it, receipts, making digital copies of work manuals, etc. Quite heavy lifting for capable but still only a phone app Scanner Pro.

As a mention, I believe Scanner Pro also offers a "fax" mode that scans a horribly degraded copy of whatever you're scanning (mono B&W, not a grayscale) that resembles received faxes from the 90s.

[toad]

Surprised you didn't include JotNot... I think it does all of what you're looking for?

[BabyPanther]

OCR is key for me and at least the two top rated apps don't appear to have it. In need searchable PDFs after I get them scanned so that I can easily find docs later. I use Scan2PDF, but it has two features missing: Auto edge detection (although you can manually adjust the edges) and white balance (often times "scans" come out discolored because of the lighting.

[PhilMaxwell]

JotNot has been my go to iPhone scanner for years. If they weren't the first, they were certainly the first to do it right. Although I think they're falling behind and haven't had an update in ages. I've been using Scanner Pro a lot more frequently lately because it's universal (iPhone/iPad) and the iCloud syncing is really nice.

[brianbeam]

 BabyPanther, on 10 July 2012 - 05:10 PM, said:

OCR is key for me and at least the two top rated apps don't appear to have it. In need searchable PDFs after I get them scanned so that I can easily find docs later. I use Scan2PDF, but it has two features missing: Auto edge detection (although you can manually adjust the edges) and white balance (often times "scans" come out discolored because of the lighting.

This is one of the main reasons that I use Evernote.

[brianbeam]

 Jasonmwa, on 10 July 2012 - 12:01 PM, said:

As a mention, I believe Scanner Pro also offers a "fax" mode that scans a horribly degraded copy of whatever you're scanning (mono B&W, not a grayscale) that resembles received faxes from the 90s.

If you take a look at the individual reviews that accompanied this post, I mentioned Scanner Pro's fax feature, but I've never used it.

[michelsal]

Portable Scanner for android starts in the app instead of starting in the camera app. outputs as pdf. I'm happy

[JohnStodderJr]

Do you know of Mac-supported software that can read a scanned, typed document and turn it into something you can edit in a word processing program?

[soulatrium]

 JohnStodderJr, on 16 July 2012 - 09:52 AM, said:

Do you know of Mac-supported software that can read a scanned, typed document and turn it into something you can edit in a word processing program?

You're looking for OCR (optical character recognition) software. There are many companies that offer such software. For example, deskUNPDF can take a PDF document, perform OCR on it, and then turn it into one of many types of documents, including Microsoft Office formats. http://www.docudesk....f/pdf-converter

[derrico]

 soulatrium, on 16 July 2012 - 09:57 AM, said:

 JohnStodderJr, on 16 July 2012 - 09:52 AM, said:

Do you know of Mac-supported software that can read a scanned, typed document and turn it into something you can edit in a word processing program?

You're looking for OCR (optical character recognition) software. There are many companies that offer such software. For example, deskUNPDF can take a PDF document, perform OCR on it, and then turn it into one of many types of documents, including Microsoft Office formats. http://www.docudesk....f/pdf-converter

ABBYY TextGrabber is a great iPhone app for capturing text, OCR, and even doing translations! Recognizes over 60 languages and can translate in 40. No Internet connection needed for these processes. Can send resulting docs to other apps, or message or email. It's an iOS cousin of the excellent ABBYY FineReader OCR app:
http://www.abbyy.com/textgrabber/

[macnut199]

The best scanner app I have found is ExactScan Pro. It is top of line and a little bit cheaper than the other major scanning software such as ABBYY. It is simple to use and has almost 400 drivers built into the program which means it makes almost any scanner compatible with a mac. It is also really easy to use and has a really simple user interface with tons of options that will improve your document. Give it a try. I hope this helps