[Android] Mobile Doc Scanner + OCR $0 (Was $6.49) @ Google Play

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tightarse on 11/04/2018 - 23:10 play.google.com (4558 clicks)
Last edited 11/04/2018 - 23:11 by 1 other user

Incredible amount of 5-star reviews. Enjoy :)

With MDScan users are free to scan any type of document, ranging from receipts to text pages and almost everything in between, on the go anywhere and anytime. A perfect companion for busy users, MDScan allows anyone to transform everything from invoices to whiteboards and classes notes, magazine articles and more into a PDF format in order to easily export them, share and e-mail it to others, or for any other reason they can come up with. MDScan automatically detects borders, corrects distortion, and equalizes brightness to create clear, legible documents at a very high speed for your convenience. Going above and beyond other mobile scanning solutions MDScan offers Batch shooting mode for a super fast scanning so users can easily scan within seconds multiple pages and save scanned files for batch processing later.

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  Clear on 11/04/2018 - 23:16

  OCR! That's gotta seal the deal.

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    bumblebeetuna on 12/04/2018 - 07:24

    +2

    Ocr can be pretty crap by itself, and is far more useful when embedded into a PDF to make it searchable.

    Last time I checked, this app does not make searchable pdf files, and if it was an application Australians were buying in the likes of HN, OZB would be in uproar to the ACCC about misleading advertising.

    Office lens by Microsoft is a great app that does a fantastic job making searchable PDF files.

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      Clear on 12/04/2018 - 08:57

      You'd be a fool to expect OCR to be perfect.

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        bumblebeetuna on 14/04/2018 - 11:40

        I'm not sure anyone expects ocr to get all characters right all the time. But that's very different to suggesting the app makes a PDF with selectable text, just because it says 'ocr'.

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        Clear on 14/04/2018 - 11:50

        @bumblebeetuna: I never suggested anything. All I ever did was point out it had OCR.

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  illumination on 11/04/2018 - 23:20

  How does this compare to Google Drive's built in scanning function?

  I suppose OCR as Clear pointed out..? Haha.

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  jskf01 on 11/04/2018 - 23:37

  whats ocr

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    Clear on 11/04/2018 - 23:40

    +5

    Optical Character Recognition. Basically when you scan a document it becomes an image and you can't highlight the text. OCR makes it so you can highlight and change the text. For example I could scan in a handwritten note then copy certain parts of it out into a word doc using OCR.

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    Lucky13 on 12/04/2018 - 06:05

    Like Clear said Optical Character Recognition. It's an expensive paid for feature of Adobe Acrobat Pro, which I don't have at home. Now I've got it in this app, so heaps happy. Will be interested in how well it OCR's as even Adobe Acrobat isn't perfect. Am looking forward to trying it, thanks :)

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  Parentheses on 11/04/2018 - 23:49

  +13

  Office Lens is the best scanner for Android, hands down.

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    illumination on 12/04/2018 - 00:05

    +1

    Can you share why you think so?

    Other ones that I've heard positive things about are CamScanner, Tiny Scanner and Google Drive.

    I recall when I briefly used Office Lens, I don't think I figured out a way to have it automatically upload to Google drive for me (wouldn't expect it being a Microsoft product).

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      Parentheses on 12/04/2018 - 02:29

      +2

      The quality of the scanning alignment and OCR is worlds better than any other app I've used (I assume because they throw it to their cognitive AI platform while it's working). As for Google Drive, I save office lens scans to gallery, which I already have synced with google drive (and dropbox).

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        surfbum1 on 12/04/2018 - 05:13

        Thanks for the recommendation. I will give Office Lens a try.

        Looks pretty good and Microsoft already knows everything about me. Russian devs/hackers hopefully not so much, though they spam the hell out of me.

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    Lucky13 on 12/04/2018 - 06:21

    Thanks, will check this out too :)

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    RedHab on 12/04/2018 - 09:29

    +1

    I tried MDS last time it was free, but the alignment and pdf quality was not that good, so I went back to Camscanner.

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  AdamFury on 12/04/2018 - 01:05

  Got it. Cheers.

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  Lucky13 on 12/04/2018 - 05:57

  A big gold star for TA, nice find! Can't wait to try it :)

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  tencents on 12/04/2018 - 06:27

  Any love for Apple users?

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    Lucky13 on 12/04/2018 - 06:37

    Looks like you can get this - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/office-lens/id975925059?mt=8

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      tencents on 12/04/2018 - 07:22

      +1

      Sweet

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  DaveD on 12/04/2018 - 07:11

  Thanks OP

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  tempura on 12/04/2018 - 08:40

  +2

  Download now, worry later

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  jain231 on 12/04/2018 - 10:08

  I can only see $6.49 at google play

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  sarakoth on 12/04/2018 - 10:08

  +1

  Expired? Shows as $6.49 for me.

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    Micko179 on 12/04/2018 - 10:25

    +1

    Yes, expired!

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  AncientWisdom on 12/04/2018 - 15:58

  For those that missed, I've been using CamScanner (free) for years and it's great!
  (No OCR though)