Scanner App: Genius Scan 4+

PDF documents & OCR

The Grizzly Labs

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Genius Scan is a document scanner app in your pocket. Quickly scan your paper documents on the go and export them as multi-page PDF files.

*** Apple App of the Week *** 20+ million users *** 1000s of small businesses ***

Place any document in front of your device’s camera: our scanner app automatically recognizes the paper against the background, crops it, and cleans up the result. You obtain a crisp, legible scan. Batch scanning lets you scan dozens of pages in a matter of seconds. Powerful tools help you organize, share, or archive your documents.

“Next time you plan to hit the road, don’t forget to download Genius Scan to make life easier for yourself and your accounting department.” - AppPicker.com

“Camera apps aren’t designed for close-up text scanning, but Genius Scan is.” - The Guardian

== KEY FEATURES ==

Smart Scanning:

- Document detection & background removal
- Distortion correction
- Shadow removal and defect cleanup
- Filters (black & white, whiteboard, photo)
- Batch scanning

PDF Creation & Editing:

- Document merging & splitting
- Multiple page PDF creation
- Photos and PDF import

Security & Privacy:

- On-device document processing
+ Face ID locking
+ PDF password encryption

Document Organization:

- Document tagging
- Metadata and content search
+ Smart document renaming (custom templates, …)
+ Backup and multi-device sync with Genius Cloud (separate subscription)

Export:

- Email
+ Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Expensify, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, OneNote, FTP, SugarSync, WebDAV.
+ Any WebDAV compatible service such as Citrix ShareFile, NextCloud, ownCloud, Synology, Yandex.
+ Automatic background auto-export

OCR (Text Recognition):

+ Text extraction
+ Searchable PDF creation
+ Business card scanning & contact creation

The features denoted with [+] are available as part of a premium plan.

== ABOUT US ==

It’s in the heart of Paris, France that The Grizzly Labs develops Genius Scan. We take pride in crafting apps that help millions of users throughout the world and hold ourselves to the highest standards in terms of quality and privacy. Get in touch with us @thegrizzlylabs if you have any questions.

== PRICING & LEGAL ==

Genius Scan is free to use for as long as you want.

Should you choose to, you can subscribe to the Genius Scan Plus plan for more features. You can subscribe to Genius Cloud for backup & synchronization. In that case, Genius Scan’s store displays the duration and price of each subscription, updated at the time of purchase. Payment will be charged to iTunes account when the order is confirmed. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off no later than 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions, disable auto-renewal in the iTunes account settings.

https://www.thegrizzlylabs.com/genius-scan/cloud/terms

What’s New

Version 7.16

Features

Improved Text Recognition

Genius Scan can now rely on Apple Vision as a text recognition engine, leading to much faster and more accurate text recognition. Genius Scan still offers support for all the languages that Apple Vision doesn't support yet. The switch will be transparent.

Curvature Correction

Genius Scan introduces curvature correction, which lets you correct the curvature of documents, especially when you scan books. The option is available by tapping the Edit button on any scanned document and then toggling the curvature correction option.

Only show documents when importing scans from your Photos

When importing images from your photos, you can now only display photos that look like documents. This AI-based feature can save you much time when importing scans from your photos.

Genius Scan adds another cleverness to this feature: it will only crop and enhance the document if it looks like an uncropped or unprocessed document.

Enhancements

- Improved the design of the informative banners displayed at the top of the document list and in various places in the app.
- Multiple performance and design enhancements to the image picker.

Bug fixes

- Fix Genius Scan widget display on iOS 17.
- Added ability to cancel setting a PIN password.
- Fix a potential crash when exporting to WebDAV.
- Fix a few crashes.
- Fix an issue which could cause a page to be stuck without text recognition.

Genius Scan now requires iOS 16 minimum.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
65.3K Ratings

65.3K Ratings

Brettp1988 ,

Such a great app for scanning/ PDF conversion

Love this app. Had it for years now and it keeps getting better with updates. Does everything you need including email, text message or saving document to other apps. The magic photo feature where it focuses and takes a photo of each document with out the press of a button is priceless. It also automatically crops the picture to the size of the page instantly. Very handy for a batch of pages as you can just let the phone do the work as you take a photo of one page and flip to the next and before you know it you have scanned 20 pages. Also handy editing features after you’ve taken the picture so you can filter the pictures to get the clearest view and the pages, recrop if needed or even rotate to what ever required direction. Best app!! Will never use a scanner again. Also has a print function 👍🏼👍🏼👌🏼

bdc_from_oz ,

Just Works (now v2, 1 yr later)

Still amazing. Not only are the features vy good (elegant OCR, easy tags, gd optimising of images) but also the organisational structure vy good (easy of uploading to gDrive, documenting of progress eg when last uploaded, ease of managing and moving stored scans). There are many competitors and there will always be one or two things they do even better, but none seem to maintain the elegance and self-evident human interface and workflow design that makes this excellent — for me, an overall winner. [Pls dont tell them, it will go to theirs heads…]

|| (orig. comment, in case v1 review gets deleted)
Works for me... simple, straight -forward, elegant interface (except for the 'Current...' phrasing during saving, which isn't clear). Very happy with it. Barns from oz || PS and the OCR is vy good, use it a lot.

RavenRoxxx36 ,

SIMPLY BRILLIANT for scanning

I use this app for taking photos of documents and combining them to create multi-page PDFs. It’s features are flawless and brilliant. It allows you to use your camera to scan a physical document by framing the border of the page and producing it as a rectangular image without a background. This single feature is done better than any other app I’ve seen and I’ve tried a few.
There are also options to improve the image with auto-enhance or making it black & white, colour or photo. You can then combine multiple scans into one PDF document. You can export the PDF to other apps, email, messages, files or keep it saved in the app for later. You can also export images as jpegs to your photo roll.
Simply brilliant app functionality! Thank you!

App Privacy

The developer, The Grizzly Labs, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
  • User Content

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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