If you own an Evernote SnapScan, you could do it the professional way and use the app to control a proper scanner, but that wouldn’t be quite as fun (plus, a SnapScan Evernote Edition printer costs USD$495, while the app is completely free).
Nothing is quite as real as a phone-number you can call in a single tap. You can even check through Scannable if you have any meetings with them set in your iCal.īasically, they’ve taken the main purpose of a name card – opportunities to connect to a person – and turned them into actionables. And to take it one step further, their LinkedIn profile will be pulled out for your perusal, assuming that they own a LinkedIn Premium account. Because, as strange as it sounds, Scannable converts name cards to people.Īfter scanning a name card, Scannable will automatically pull out the details from the card to be stored in your phone as a contact. You can directly make a phonecall just by tapping on the phone number.
You can save them directly into an Evernote note, email it, or export it as an image into either your Camera Roll or iCloud.īut the best part of this app came when name cards were involved. Just as long as the light is good enough, and the background isn’t too messy (I usually just place it on an empty spot on my desk), detection took 3-5 seconds, and scanning about the same. If it detects a document, the app instantly lights it up in blue, and then uses editing software to increase the contrast on the pictures, making words bolder and clearer.Īfter trying it out on a couple of receipts and letters, there were no problems. There have been scanning apps before that, but the accuracy and precision that this app has is a great improvement from the usual snap and crop ideas. The idea is simple – the app uses your camera to detect, frame, and ‘scan’ a document held up before it. Scannable, however, is revolutionary, and in the best way possible, one of the most practical apps you could use. However, the inertia to this change is great, and most people find transiting to paperless life cumbersome, annoying, and tiring.Įvernote’s newest app, Scannable, wants to solve this problem.Įvernote hasn’t release anything truly innovative recently, instead focusing on building their business brand and updating existing apps in little ways. People have long known the effects of excess paper usage, and some offices are slowly working their way towards a paperless office – one that requires no stacks of paper, no printing of work, with all the necessary data safely and efficiently stored in the digital world. If you’re still working with piles of papers at your desk, you’re doing it wrong.
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