Adobe Scan - Adobe's free scan app with text recognition superpowers
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I wonder what's going on with Product Hunt nowadays. A tshirt with a misspelled word gets 100+ upvotes while amazing products like this don't get any recognition.
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@bentossell It was hunted early yesterday but now it says that it was hunted 8 minutes ago. Does it take a day for products to get featured? I'm seriously confused. I thought good products eventually went to the top but now it seems like that's not the case.
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@faisal_hassanx I believe you that there are lot of products which get so many upvotes for nothing...I think it depends on the community and what they want, like real life, definitely there will be lobbyists of some products. Like this one I don't why people are voting for this product as it is nothing but a mere scanner app and there are much better with many more features and much better designed apps from many developers available, I don't know what makes this so unique. If Product hunt also show the views of each product, we all might understand the real impact of these upvotes... As I might see any products based on its upvotes but it might not get my upvote unless I like it.
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@faisal_hassanx or a live steaming app for its landing page 😒
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@faisal_hassanx let the community & leads do their job -- submitted isn't the same as featured. @bentossell there's some validity to the community shifting away from analysis of products/landscape + maker discussions towards a more superficial conversation, just part of a big community problem. No indictment against the PH team, yall kick ass!
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Why do I need to signup to use a scanner app! Secondly, there are so many good alternatives. Genius Scan, Scanner Pro and Evernote to name a few.
@parwinder Yeah, a blocking login requirement before I can the test the scanning feature. Immediately uninstalled, Scanner Pro is just the way to go!
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I wonder how this will compare to the Evernote feature I use daily. BRB
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Okay, so I think it's roughly equivalent to Evernote's offer in this space, although the PDF annotation features in EN are premium. EN nicely cropped and rotated my document but Adobe didn't. Adobe used the flash on a glossy document while EN never did. EN seems to have better recognition of whether to scan as a document or photo, but the scan of a drawing on both was about equal. Adobe doesn't seem to have black and white photo scan (although I don't think they claim to either). Must store in Adobe Document Cloud, but can share via mobile app menu, link, or email. Exported to EN via mobile share menu no problem.
TLDR: I don't see me using this instead of Evernote at the moment, especially since I don't really want to have another cloud service to deal with, but for those who can't or don't wish to use Evernote, this will be great. Students will especially enjoy, since they likely can't pay for Evernote premium to get EN's annotation feature.
Perfect app for students - I can't tell you how many random pieces of paper I've lost over the years, and there's always that professor that refuses or forgets to upload everything to the class website.
Just scan the paper right when you get it in class. Boom. No more hassle.
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Looks good, but I'm sticking with Scanbot which has amazing scanning and can send the document or PDF to a ton of different online storage services.
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I wish we could get a show down on the OCR. I haven't seen a single app that does OCR well, yet.
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