FOR RELEASE MARCH 19, 2015 (ANY TIME)
PDFpen Scan+ 2.0 Features Touch-Free Scanning; Edit Free Scanning
San Francisco, CA – MARCH 19, 2015 – Smile, the developer of productivity applications for Mac®, iPad® and iPhone®, has released PDFpen Scan+ 2.0, a new version of their mobile scanning and OCR app for iPhone and iPad. This new version has a redesigned camera screen with auto-scan mode, which will take the scan, automatically crop, and assign editing presets – all without a tap.
Auto-scan mode will take a scan as soon as a page is in view of the camera. Auto-crop will crop the scan in the camera screen while showing a live preview of detected page edges. Presets for color mode and paper size are presented in the camera screen and the settings will be remembered across uses.
PDFpen Scan+ 2.0 is a free update for current users, and for all others it’s available for $6.99 on the App Store℠. It requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 8.
What’s New:
– Touch-free scanning on your iPhone or iPad camera
– Detects page edges automatically when camera is focused and steady
– Camera automatically crops scan
– In-camera setting for color / grayscale / black and white
– In-camera setting for page size, including legal, business card, receipt sizes, and more
FEATURES
– Touch-free scanning on your iPhone or iPad camera
– Scan multiple images into a single document
– Detects page edges automatically when camera is focused and steady
– Camera automatically crops scan
– In-camera setting for color / grayscale / black and white
– In-camera setting for page size: from legal, to business card, and receipts
– Auto export scans to Dropbox or iCloud Drive
– Use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert scans into searchable PDFs (OCR is performed in-app, not sent to a cloud service)
– Preview and copy text recognized by OCR
– OCR documents in 18 different languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish
– Email and share PDF documents with embedded, searchable OCR text
– Import scans from your photo library
– Import scans from image and PDF files via “Open In…”
– Store documents in iCloud for sharing between devices
– Rotate scanned pages
– Organize documents in folders
– TextExpander touch support for renaming documents
– Adjust cropping/brightness/contrast of scanned pages
– Share documents with PDFpen for markup and editing
– Import and Export documents using Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Evernote, Transporter, and Google Drive cloud services
– Import and Export documents using iTunes, FTP, and WebDAV
– Works with both iPhone and iPad, iOS 8 required
Requirements:
– an iOS device running iOS 8 or above
Pricing:
$6.99
Available on the App Store
https://smilesoftware.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?product=pdfpen-scan&cmd=itunes
Icon, logotype and screenshots
https://smilesoftware.com/assets/images/uploads/PDFpenScan_graphics.zip
For more information about PDFpen Scan+ please visit:
https://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/Scan
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ABOUT SMILE
Smile makes productivity software for Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, including PDFpen, the all-purpose Mac PDF editor; PDFpen for iPad & iPhone, the mobile PDF editor; PDFpen Scan+, which brings the power of OCR to your iPad and iPhone; TextExpander, the Mac typing shortcut tool; TextExpander touch + custom keyboard for the iPhone and iPad; and DiscLabel, the CD label design program.
Demos of all Smile products for OS X are available for free download at https://smilesoftware.com/.
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CONTACTS:
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PR, Smile
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Founder, Smile
greg@smilesoftware.com
Philip Goward
Founder, Smile
philip@smilesoftware.com
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