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Adobe Scan — Adobe's free scan app with text recognition superpowers

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Faisal Hassan
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.
Ben Tossell
@faisal_hassanx because this has only just been featured...
Faisal Hassan
@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.
Ben Tossell
@faisal_hassanx products are featured at different times. this was just featured which is why it says 8 mins ago. I've no doubt this will do well. the community upvote what they find interesting. The feed is often very full with lots of products so some pushed to the next day
iNilay
@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.
Ben Tossell
@nilsej @faisal_hassanx think you'll find that Faisal was saying that this product was an amazing one... All upvotes are from the community. Everyone has different opinions. That is ok. Its what makes this community so great and so different.
Smokie
I wonder how this will compare to the Evernote feature I use daily. BRB
Smokie
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.
Dylan Marriott
@xtoq There's a special promotion for students though :) https://evernote.com/students/
Smokie
@dylan36032 Thanks, but only available for new Evernote account holders. Other students will love that though! <3
Parwinder Bhagat
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.
Mario Uher
@parwinder Yeah, a blocking login requirement before I can the test the scanning feature. Immediately uninstalled, Scanner Pro is just the way to go!
Camron Cade
Nice hunt! Adobe has really been killing it with their app game lately.
Nick Abouzeid
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.
Joseph Wood
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.
Adam Posey
I wish we could get a show down on the OCR. I haven't seen a single app that does OCR well, yet.
Wilhem Pujar
I like it but it's weird that collaboration around your scans happens by send a PDF in an email attachment...
Kelly Kuhn-Wallace
Happy that Adobe got a horse in the race. Now that pony needs to do more than direct traffic to Adobe's other apps.
Philipp Meder
This comes just at the right time. I'm going to move out of my dorm in 2 months and have just been looking for an easy way to scan all the documents I'm not going to be able to take back to Germany.
Shlok Vaidya
Office Lens is pretty fantastic for people who are on the MS Outlook stack of things.
Mike Way
Disappointed. Nice scanning; good convert to PDF; but $130 a year to hold my documents in Adobe Cloud.
Andreas Duess
Nice. So many players in that market thou....
Nicolas Nguyen
This just really cool. I was looking for an app like this for my presentation.
yantommy
that's great!need this one.
John Schenk
I've needed this for years. Excited to use this product. Nice hunt @razkarmi
Kevin Osuna
Good Job!
Max Kolysh
Is there an API?
J Wiskerchen
I installed this on my iPhone 6S to see how it compared to Google's PhotoScan (which I quite like), but as soon as I open Adobe Scan it starts auto-scanning like crazy. Normally, you push the button when you want to take a photo/scan, but this app is taking a photo every 2 seconds. There's nothing in preferences that disables this, so I'm hoping this behavior is a bug that will be fixed soon.
Marat Zakaryan
nice