A few months back I was pretty stoked to learn Epson provides a free iPhone app for my multi-function device. Yet, while print functionality has come in handy, scanning isn’t all that efficient. Enter Readdle who reached out around WDCC and introduced me to their line of productivity apps, providing a copy of Scanner Pro to check out. And, as we prepare to purchase our new home, it’s been extremely effective at turning my phone into a mobile scanner. In fact, its ability to easily scan multiple documents into a single PDF bests my scanner in both ease and capabilities. I’ve been so pleased, in fact, I purchased a second copy for my wife’s iPhone and business. There are multiple iOS scanning apps available, and I haven’t tried them all, but Scanner Pro routinely comes out on top. At $6, I’d say it’s a solid app. On sale today for $2, it’s really a no brainer.
All of Readdle’s apps are on sale today as they celebrate their 5th birthday. Details here.
Picked up that and PrinterPro (just because). I have ReaddleDocs but I don’t use it much anymore. The scanning and printing seemed pretty cool.
Thanks!
Dave,
Once you scan receipts, where to you store them? Dropbox?
Brent- They can be stored in iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, or a WebDav server of your choice.
Yep, several storage options and the app has seen two or three updates in even the short time I’ve been using it. I haven’t looked at the file sizes yet, so I’m not sure if iCloud is realistic for me. But glad its there. (We also turned on efax for $17/mo. We’ll experiment with emailing PDF direct to efax at some point.)
Be careful with eFax. The gotcha is that you cannot take your number with you when you leave. We had Efax.com for a couple of years and then found RingCentral. Much cheaper and you can take your number when you go.
Also a fan of Scanner Pro. Works very well. Often more convenient to use that the company fax machine honestly.
I’m also interested in getting rid of my physical fax machine which occupies prime real estate in my kitchen and is just a pain to maintain. But for the rare occasions that I need to send or receive faxes these days its just ridiculous how much all these companies want for their internet services. At $7 or $8 per month, I’d be paying a buck a page or more. My home fax machine probably cost me like $100 and we’ve had it for like 5 years or more.
Anyway, you got me digging around and this seems like a reasonable comparison service:
http://www.faxprices.com/
Based on my very limited needs it looks like the FaxAge Lite plan at $3.49 a month (plus 5 cents a minute) would be my best bet.
However, it doesn’t look like that site checks all the (many) internet fax services and actually faxaway.com, something David Pogue reviewed back in like 2004, seems to be the cheapest solution. A one time charge of $10 and then a per minute charge of around 11 cents… Not the most obvious site design I must say…
Well, for Melissa’s business, this is our company fax machine. ;) My work environment isn’t such that I can use their gear for my personal business.
Jon, thanks for the heads up. I’ve had a few other service suggestions. And Glenn also seems to come across Faxage which is one another buddy recommended. Will need to research it further at another time.
I still prefer the quality and flexibility offered by an actual scanner (in my case an HP all on one) and for that I use the excellent Vue Scan app on my iPad. Highly recommended. There’s even a free version you can use to test whether I your particular scanner is compatible with the app before shelling out for the paid version.