To OCR new document:
Important: please read the OCR tips section before using this app for the first
time.
1. On the app's main menu, tap "Camera." To use Super x3 scan mode, tap "Super x3."
• To open an image from the iPhone's library instead, tap "Album."
2. Take a single picture of your
document. (In Super
x3 mode, take three pictures). Processing starts
automatically.
3. If edge detection was not successful, the "Adjust document frame" screen
appears. Adjust the frame by dragging the corners to match the corners of your
document. When finished, tap "Done."
4.To start OCR, tap “OCR!”
5. After the OCR is done, you can edit your text by tapping the “Pen” icon at the bottom. To rename your text, tap “Rename” on the editing screen.
6. After the OCR is done, the action menu has more choices. You can send the scanned text as a PDF or plain-text file using the "Email to myself" feature, email the image and text with the regular email function, or copy your text to the clipboard.
You can also use “Open in...” function to open your document in other apps like the free Dropbox or Evernote app. (You can send your document to a “cloud” from those apps.)
• Note: emails are not sent by the app directly, but instead are queued for sending by the standard Mail app. Emailing large attachments may take some time. In case of error sending mail we recommend that you restart your iPhone and check the “Out” folder in the Mail app.
• Note that the app can
create and send fully searchable PDFs of document
images (by including embedded keywords). If you need a searchable PDF with only
the image, scan your document with OCR and choose Action > “Image and text...” > “PDF +
text file” or choose “Open
in...” > “Open PDF with image”.
7. Tap "Main" to return to the main menu.
Auto-remove line breaks:
• To help the recognized text fit neatly
onto different-sized pages, you can enable "Auto-remove line breaks"
in Settings.
Browsing the archive:
• All your OCR scans are automatically saved as text documents in the built-in archive. To open a scan, just tap its title in the list on the main page. (Note that the app does not save document images in archive.)
• You can edit your scan (or rename it) by tapping the “Pen” icon. Tap the Action icon to send your scan via email, copy to clipboard, or delete.
• Delete a saved scan
simply by swiping over the document title in the list.
Uploading archived files to your desktop computer:
You can upload your saved
text files to your desktop computer using iTunes
program and its File Sharing
feature. To do that:
1. Run iTunes,
connect your iPhone, and
select your phone's icon on the left panel.
2. Select Apps at the top and find the File Sharing section. Select SmartScan+OCR, find the TextArchive folder to the right, and select it.
3. Click Save As. The folder containing all your text data (.txt files) will be copied to your computer.
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