SharpScan - Smart Document Scanner for Android

No matter how we tried to get rid of the paper, it is everywhere haunt us. Receipts, invoices, business cards, contracts and other documents often need to be digitized for the shipment and storage. With Google Play, a lot of applications, scanners, and we found one of them special.

SharpScan differs from other scanners that capture almost completely automates the process and transform image, and also includes several functions that are convenient when working with documents.

pros

To scan is not required to dance around the document and jewelry inducing chamber at a right angle at close range. Enough to take the subject in the frame, after which the application will determine the boundaries of the sheet itself and takes a picture.

Smart algorithm will eliminate perspective distortion and provide ready-scan as if you were photographed at an angle of 90 degrees strictly.

Pay attention to the clarity of the resulting scan. Although the shooting was carried out carelessly from the thigh and a distance of about half a meter, each letter is readable. This is how the built-in software SharpScan stabilization eliminates blur and ghosting typical when shooting handheld.

To work correctly recognize the scanned document is better to put on different color background. White paper on white table see Annex refused.

Caught in the frame extra parts can be removed manually with a built-in editor. Just move the point, and the further leveling of the sheet is executed automatically.

Scans are saved in the internal application library and sharyatsya as a PDF or image files integrated Android tools. By default, documents are sorted in chronological order, but nothing prevents to create your own folders and store the image as it is convenient to you.

Color originals scan high-resolution weigh much, and mail services limit the size of attached files. Do not forget about distant from the ideal quality of the mobile Internet. Often much more convenient to send uzhatye version scans. In addition, the color copy is almost never required and black-and-white version is usually enough.

SharpScan take into account the facts and allows fumble not only scans the originals, but also black and white, gray and compressed color options. Source image is not disappear and remains in the application memory. Accordingly, if you choose to send a black-and-white version, and then you were asked to color option, then re-scan the document does not have to.

The app provides batch scanning large numbers of documents. Suffice it once to fix the camera at the first page, and then change the sheets. SharpScan will automatically search for and seize new document every three seconds. Also, the scanner is able to pull out the photo gallery for the processing of the smartphone.

Minuses

Current Android-version of the application does not support the OCR, although SharpScan for iOS OCR is already there. Hopefully the developer will fix this flaw in the nearest update.

Free version of the scanner in no way limits the functionality, but always shows a small banner below. Advertising does not close the buttons, but sometimes distracting. Also, the free version leaves a PDF-scan reference to itself. It is neatly side and not creeps on the text, but the fact of its presence may interfere with someone. In this case, scans that are sent in the form of graphic files do not contain any marks.

To disable the banner in the interface and remove the link to the PDF-scans, have to pay 59 rubles for the Pro-version of the application.

in total

Overall SharpScan is a very high quality and thoughtful document scanner. Disappointing lack of OCR, but at the expense of the competent optimize images further OCR on them, it is possible even with a very simple freeware OCR-utilities. Automation of the scanning process and the overall ruggedness to shooting conditions makes SharpScan good tool to work on the fly.