Not corret. DTTG does OCR locally, if you tell it to
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Thats basically how I also do it. It would be great if ScannerPro Workflows would support to move the file to the local āDevonThinkā folder on the device, this for me is the missing capability (where you as a workaround use Dropbox)
@chrillek is right, but you can also use DTs powerful OCR on your Mac if you prefer.
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Just my $0.02 (well, $0.04 these days with inflation), but I recently bought a FUJITSU Image Scanner ScanSnap iX1600 and am positively amazed at its paper handling. Iāve been scanning hundreds of photos and old documents with very few issues. I even fed it a series of loose-leaf sheets torn from a notebook, and it didnāt choke on any of them! Itās a bit pricey, but I have to say for anyone interested in acquiring a scanner to work with DT, itās amazing.
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Indeed, the ScanSnap scanners are top notch. The scanning software UI isnāt all that great but itās still functional too.
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I have to agree that the scanning software UI isnāt great, but itās surprisingly powerful once you figure out how it works. Once I customized a few of the jobs, and which jobs appear on the front panel of my scanner as well, I was off to the races in terms of getting things done. Iāve had boxes of photos, folders of documents, etc. piling up for decades, and this thing has let me get caught up in ways I never thought I would. Itās amazing!
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i use the older version of their software that is not limited by license to one machine. āScansnap Manager 7.2ā. once they made it work on 64 works fine and has all the bells and whistles needed. I also use a Brother scanner and their software (which i bought when it looked like Fujitsu abandoned my two scanners but in end did not). Brother software a bit more idiosyncratic but has most all needed. both feed into DEVONthink for storage.
I may be missing the use case here, but recent iOS has a scanner feature built in that yields better results than taking a normal picture.
Go into the Notes app and click the camera icon at the bottom. Choose āscan documents.ā
Take a picture of the page, and then you get drag handles to crop to what you want. Click (touch) the ākeep scanā button. Repeat for as many pages as you want, but there is a key thing that must be done. Donāt just exit the camera app. Click the āsaveā button when youāre finished. Otherwise the scan will be lost.
Itās not perfect. It does a reasonable job, and will de-pincushion the images.
The scanned images are in the Notes app, and if you share them they are PDF documents.
Personally, I miss my old Minox. Of course, an iPhone is easier than a spy camera to explain away, should THRUSH agents intercept your exfiltration from a hostile embassy. Thatās nice.
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Yes. pictures JPEG or HEIC of documents sent by people unaware of how bad they are compared to built-in scanning is off putting. just down to experience of people and how much they care. still i rely on a real scanner unless situation does not warrant (on the go, a book eg Gutenberg Bible 
, etc. ).
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As per Iphone Scanner and scanner pro - #19 by Per
we can scan from the files app, directly into DTTG
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cool! Iāve got DTTG on my iPad. I should install it on my phone for the scanner function. That would be handy.
Thank you, for listing these steps, very informative and useful. I am looking into this process and the one mentioned lower down about using appleās native scanner.
Thanks, very useful. I started to look at apple scripts on the iPhone to speed it up further but it seems simple enough regardless, Iām just playing around with the scripts though.
I have the ix500. it does jam up now and then, especially with the thin receipts I scan, hence the post. It would be interesting to know if the ix1600 has improved in this area.
To date, my scanner has jammed up on me only once: when I fed it a two-page brochure that I didnāt realize was two pages. Iāve fed it semi-crumpled papers, torn pages, loose-leaf sheets torn out of notebooksāeven with trailing paper āflangesā left on the side!āand it has handled it all like a champ. Iāve never previously owned a scanner in this series, but it easily outdoes every other scanner Iāve had. Any stack of single pages I feed it, including thin, wispy, thermal-paper receipts, business cards, irregularly sized pictures and postcards, etc. all work just fine.
I did have to tweak some of the job settings. Like I always want the max resolution for photos, and I needed to adjust the text ādarkerā for those weak, thermal-paper receipts. But once I did that, and customized which jobs appear on its screen, I havenāt a single complaint or issue.
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Sounds like an improvement over mine then. Mine is good but it certainly jams more than what you are saying. There is one use case which I still think the iPhone will be best for and that is I have a property business and sometimes the contractors hand me receipts which have fallen on the floor and can be full of plaster/dust and I really donāt want to run these through the scanner.
Yeah, I could see that. Iāve had to clean the glass, upper and lower, on my scanner on multiple occasions. It does seem like it gets dirty pretty quickly, but in the plus column it does at least tell me when itās dirty. And tells me what to clean!
A tip about Scansnap Manager-- if youāre perpetually low on disc space, you may wish to get in the habit of emptying Scansnap Home/Managerās Trash. The location where all the intermediate scan files are stored: ~/Library/Application\ Support/PFU
doesnāt show up in finder, and can get pretty large.
try pdf expert on iOS.
Why???
I did a brief look and donāt see a scan feature