Keep encrypted digital copies of your papers in the cloud accessible from anywhere. Find the one you need in seconds. Send it to the printer, email or messaging app.
The story of this app is similar to many of yours: I've started building this app for myself. I've got many paper documents at home: bills, prescriptions, all kinds of certificates, etc. Scanning and keeping them in the filesystem as files and folders were not letting me group and sort the scans the way I like: it's either by type or person then by year or year and then by type or project. And I wanted to have both. And tags in macOS didn't help much either.
So I wrote a simple app, keeping some of the papers' metadata in the Firestore, and kept adding features like linking to contacts, OCR to retrieve text for better search, stacks and multiple currencies because I needed all of these myself.
One day, one of my friends told me he want to use something like this too. And I've upgraded the app to be multiuser, added encryption, so even I cannot see the data of my friends, compiled iOS and Android and that lets me have even notifications for the due dates and anniversaries. And I was able to make it publicly available.
The two aspects I'm thinking about and working on are automatically filling the metadata from the recognized text and sharing the papers with other users.
I'm curious, how do you sort and manage your papers at home? Keeping them in cloud storage like Google Drive or Dropbox or just images in your device's photo gallery? Maybe I can use some of your ideas to improve the UX of my app? ;-))
Hey, congratulations on the launch!
It’s really a big trouble to manage documents at home - bills, medical documents, etc.
Does it support text recognition? I found for me that sometimes it is really important to find paper by some short text or keyword.
Also it is nice to have to scan documents by photo and convert to PDF - as it does native iOS Notes.app
Keep doing!
@asaskevich thanks for the congrats!
Yes, there is text recognition already. It's not working on all papers automatically by default yet, but really soon it will. The extracted text is searchable, of course.
What is more essential for me than searching is to use it to fill in all the metadata for the user: title, reference, contacts, amounts, etc. That's what I'm concentrating on right now.
As a creator, I can see some bugs still unfixed, but as the most active user, I clearly see all the benefits when all the papers are kept and managed in one place.
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