566: Paperless Strikes Back

I’m not speaking for David, but I think Genius Scan’ document border detection by far the best.

After Macstories featured Genius Scan, I decided to have a look on scanner apps. I tried Apple Notes, iSolid’s Quickscan, Scanner Pro trial and Genius Scan.

My test was scanning some citizenship documents, some of the papers are already yellow, or the actual color is yellow. Some of them has ornaments near the border. I then share to DTTG3 and Onedrive. My phone is embedded to selfie stick with just enough lighting, for the sake of consistency in the testing angle.

  • Apple Notes is too basic, and exports the scanned documents with white paddings.
  • Scanner Pro is good, but as I said earlier the document border detection is bad enough that I need to retake some document.
  • iSolid’s Quickscan document border detection is somehow better than Scanner Pro, but the app lacks scanned documents manager.
  • Genius Scan’s border detection is the best, it featured scanned document manager and sharing.

Note that IMHO all of the mentioned scanner app’s OCR (if exist) is bad for Indonesian language that I still need to OCR them on DEVONthink desktop.

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