Pros & Cons
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- Automatically and quickly scans business cards, documents, meeting notes, and other files.
- Faster than a pronghorn racing a cheetah.
- Connects to LinkedIn for added context.
- Great text-parsing technology.
- Wonderful sharing options.
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- No way to manually focus camera.
- Some connectivity problems in early days of testing.
- No option to collate several pages/images into one note.
Scannable (free), a new app from Evernote, belongs on every productivity enthusiast's list of the best iPhone apps. This powerful little app scans anything you put in front of it and sends it to your Evernote account, or another place you want to store it, and has the ability to share the files with other people very intelligently, too. For example, say you're in a meeting with three other people. You can use the app to scan a few files from the meeting, and Scannable will automatically ask you if you want to share the images with the people in your meeting, as long as they're listed attendees in a meeting invite and you've granted Scannable access to your calendar. That's smart.
Not only is Scannable smart, but it works, too. Scannable powers through scanning jobs even more quickly than Evernote's flagship app for document or business card scanning and uploading. It's a keeper and a PCMag Editors' Choice.
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Evernote Scannable (for iPhone)
Evernote Scannable quickly scans stacks of business cards, notes from a meeting, and documents using nothing more than your smartphone and its camera. It's even faster than Evernote's own in-app business card and document scanner.