Genius Scan – Pocket scanner

Traveling with a scanner in your pocket is no longer a luxury for many of us. In progress, during a professional activity, for a quick exchange of important and signed documents, when sending expense reports, …, here is a very practical tool that will allow you to save and send all your documents ( one or more pages) in a minimum of time and in excellent quality.

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In addition to a quick and simple use, you will benefit from many features such as detection of document edges, correction of perspective, detection of the presence / absence of color, or even improvement of the quality of the document. ‘picture.

After more than 10 years of existence and success (more than 20 million users), the publisher The Grizzly Labs today launches version 6 of Genius Scan. A completely reworked version and now based on the Deep Learning to provide users with a faster scanning workflow. But also with new features and various improvements.

Among the novelties:
– Based on deep learning, entirely new algorithms now feed the document detection function.
– In its version 6, Genius Scan will instantly focus on your documents, even in the most difficult configurations.
– White paper on a white desk will no longer interfere with document detection.
– Your computer keyboard will not appear in the scan window either.
– Document detection is also much faster.
– All image enhancement filters have been rebuilt. They adjust colors, white balance, tackle delicate shadows in your scans, and clean the edges of your documents.
– If you have not cut your document precisely, the filters will remove anything that is not useful.
– New color filter preserves colors while maintaining excellent contrast and dark shades of black for your text.
– The new photo filter fully enhances your family photos by adjusting the colors with better rendering.
– If you are scanning a document with many pages, one of them may not be useful or may be missing. Until now, if you wanted to replace this page with a new one, you had to add a new scan at the end of your document and then position it before deleting the old one. Today, when you delete a page, Genius Scan 6 gives you the option of easily replacing it, freeing you from that cumbersome tapping sequence.

The basic version of Genius Scan, including new scanning technology, remains free for Android users.
The Premium version can be unlocked at a one-time and reasonable cost (click here to see the different prices).

Main Features :
– Document detection and background elimination.
– Correction of distortion.
– Elimination of shadows and imperfections.
– Filters (black & white, whiteboard, photo).
– Multi-page scan.
– Merging and splitting of PDF documents.
– Creation of multi-page PDF.
– Imports of photos and PDFs.
– Processing of documents on the phone, nothing goes through third-party servers for total security and confidentiality.
– Biometric unlocking (paid version).
– PDF encryption by password (paid version).
– Labeling of documents.
– Search by metadata and in content.
– Export by e-mail.
– Export via Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Expensify, Google Drive, OneDrive, FTP, WebDAV (paid version).
– Export any service compatible with WebDAV such as Citrix ShareFile, NextCloud, ownCloud, Synology, Yandex (paid version).
– Automatic export in the background (paid version).
– Text extraction (paid version).
– Creation of PDF with text (paid version).
– Digitization of business cards & creation of contacts (paid version).

Details given by the publisher about confidentiality and permissions:
“Documents are processed and stored on your phone, not on a third-party server.
We are asking for some Android permissions. Access to the network allows the export of scans to the cloud; localization allows you to name your documents with the current position (country, city). With Android 6 we only ask for these permissions when necessary, but we are forced to ask for them during installation with previous versions. “

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