PDFpen Scan+ from Smile OCRs your iPhone/iPad photos


There are a number of options out there for using your iPhone or iPad as a document scanner. Many work well, but most don't provide character recognition. PDFpen Scan+ from Smile aims to allow you to take a photo of a document and then turn that into a PDF with extractable text. Once processed, you'll have a PDF that's searchable with selectable text. As with similar scanner apps, PDFpen will isolate the page by cropping the borders. There's an auto detect and user selectable to fine tune things.

The app hooks into cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote to quickly store scans for use elsewhere. Smile says its app supports up to 16 languages and supports multi-page documents.

PDFpen Scan+ is available now for both iPad and iPhone for $4.99.