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iScan - PDF & Document Scanner
Phone document scanner that saves to iCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox and reads text with OCR.
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- Developer
- EXORID Ltd
- Score
- 4.5
- Downloads
- 1K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 5.6.2
- Price
- Free
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About this app
iScan, from EXORID Ltd, turns the phone camera into a document scanner for bills, tickets, receipts, passports and anything else that needs to become a PDF. It is built for people who would rather not visit a print shop to get a form scanned. Point the camera at the page, give it a moment, and the scan is ready to convert, save or share. Finished documents can be kept in the photo gallery or uploaded to iCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox. OCR text recognition makes the words in a scan selectable for copying and sharing, and the image processing is designed to clean up blur, glare and blemishes, in colour as well as black and white. PDFs can be edited before or after saving, with no limit on how many you keep. Scanning works without a Wi-Fi connection, though the listing is cut off before it explains which parts need to be online.
iScan - PDF & Document Scanner: the full guide
What the app is
The camera as a flatbed scanner. iScan, from EXORID Ltd, is for the moment a form, a receipt, a ticket or a passport page needs to become a PDF and the nearest print shop is too far. You frame the page, wait a beat, and get a scan to convert, save or share.
Finished files stay in the photo library or go to Dropbox, Google Drive or iCloud. OCR makes scanned text selectable, and the processing is meant to remove blur, glare and marks, in colour or black and white. PDFs are editable at any stage, with no cap on how many you keep, and Wi-Fi isn't needed to scan.
How it works day to day
A receipt arrives, you lay it flat, open iScan, and the page is captured and squared up. A tap sends it to Drive for the expense claim. Later in the week a signed form goes the same way, straight to iCloud as a PDF.
When a document has text you need, OCR lets you select and copy it instead of retyping. The clean-up processing handles the glare from a kitchen light or a slightly blurred capture. Edits to a PDF, whether cropping or reordering, happen inside the app. Which steps need a connection is unclear, because the listing is truncated before that point.
Why people look for it
An urgent form. Most people who search for a scanner app have something due today and no scanner, and iScan's pitch is aimed squarely at that moment. Cloud export to Drive and Dropbox matters to people whose paperwork lives there already. Around a thousand ratings at 4.5 is a modest base, typical of a utility that gets installed when needed rather than loved.
Look and feel
Scanner apps have a camera viewfinder with an edge-detection overlay, a document list and a share sheet, and the five screenshots will almost certainly show those. The Business category suggests a plain, functional look. Any visual flair will be in the before-and-after of the image clean-up rather than the chrome around it.
