What are the best scanning and OCR apps on iOS for digitizing legalized documents?

[ernadrey11]

Looking for recommendations on the best scanning and OCR apps available on iOS that can digitize legalized documents. I need these apps to convert physical documents into digital formats as accurately as possible because my work involves handling a lot of legal papers that need to be easily retrievable (and safe). So, I'd need an app that can recognize text accurately to avoid errors in important documents. Any app or service recommendation would be great!

 

[toMACsh]

Your printer/scanner should have come with an app to enable you to use the scanning capabilities. Perhaps others can weigh in on whether a "third-party" scanning app would be compatible with all printers, or if it makes a difference what printer/scanner you have.

 

[RadDave]

Looking for recommendations on the best scanning and OCR apps available on iOS that can digitize legalized documents. I need these apps to convert physical documents into digital formats as accurately as possible because my work involves handling a lot of legal papers that need to be easily retrievable (and safe). So, I'd need an app that can recognize text accurately to avoid errors in important documents. Any app or service recommendation would be great!

Hi ernadrey11 - you might want to provide some more information - how many documents do you need to scan now and in the future, are these standard paper and/or legal size, are the sheets separate and/or bound (e.g. stapled), and what hardware do you now own (computer - type, model, OS running; printer and/or scanner - same questions)? Difficult to be specific w/o these facts, sorry -

If you want to use an iOS device like an iPad, then go to the App store and search on 'OCR' - first pic below are the hits I got on my iPad (plus more pages) - I've never used any of these apps so no recommendation, but maybe others familiar with one or more will respond?

Now, if you have a multi-function printer and/or a scanner, you should be able to easily make digitized copies of the legal documents - hence the reason to ask the questions above.

Finally, I just upgraded my Doxie scanner and now own the one below (2nd pic - also received a good discount from the company for my old one) - this machine is nice for single feed sheets - runs on battery power, stores on a SD card, or can Wi-Fi results to your other devices.

So, just some ideas to think about because I'm just not sure what 'scanning power' you really need. Good luck - Dave
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[vansmith]

Depending on the iPhone you're using, have you tried using the document scanner built in alongside the OCR support built in? I'm suspecting that the legally sensitive nature of the documents may not make this the best solution but I thought I'd let you know that something is built in that may work for you.

 

[Rod]

Thank you vansmith for reminding me of this relatively recent iOS addition. I have been using Genius Scan for so long I had completely forgotten that this feature was listed in "New Features" way back in iOS 15 along with character recognition.
PS. Nice to see you on these forums again.

 

[vansmith]

I admit that it's buried in the Files app so if you don't use the Files app very much, you can't be faulted for not knowing that the feature exists.

And thanks - it's good to be back around these parts.

 

[Jimmysb]

Just a thought, but documents with (wet) signatures that are scanned, in some areas (finance and commercial) these are not legally acceptable, and the original signed documents must be retained.