Genius Scan – App Review

Do you find yourself frequently snapping pictures of documents with your iPhone? It could be a killer recipe from a friend’s cookbook, notes from a class or even a receipt from a big purchase. Regardless of the type of document being archived, chances are you’ve found the iPhone’s built-in macro focus a bit limiting. Photos including any kind of fine print have a tendency to look washed out and blurry—even on iPhone 4. Genius Scan for iOS effectively remedies this issue. Billed as a pocket scanner for your iPhone, Genius Scan effortlessly converts text heavy images to JPEG and PDF for easy reference and sharing.

Perhaps the most impressive features of the app which differentiate it from the iPhone’s built-in Camera app are its auto page frame detection and perspective correction abilities. After capturing an image, the app seeks out the most relevant box of text and auto selects it. While this selection can be modified if needed, the app is typically very accurate the first time around. Perspective correction is even more amazing—allowing users to convert text taken from nearly any angle to more legible and straight facing documents. The app also contains a series of post-processing options allowing for enhanced color and black-and-white documents. Great for use with single or multipage documents, Genius Scan automatically converts multi-scan images to PDF for export to Mail, iBooks, or any other PDF compatible app.

Although the app lends itself to a variety of uses, it excels at tasks such as capturing the contents of a whiteboard, archiving receipts and recipes, and making a copy of a document for printing later. Genius Scan is free, though its paid counterpart Genius Scan+ adds the ability to export to Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Docs.

To download Genius Scan click here.