When you scan business cards, Scannable can automatically search LinkedIn and get their contact details added to your device directly. Or if you aren’t satisfied, just delete it. To fine-tune your scan, you are able to crop a scan or rotate it if needed. Regardless of auto or manual capture, Scannable works best when used on a contrasting background from the documents. If the document you are trying to scan isn’t working well with the auto-recognition of Scannable, you can switch to the manual capture with a single tap. Still, Scannable recognizes documents a lot faster than other apps I’ve used before. When you hold your device over the document, Scannable will show a blue overlay on top of the document on the screen, and then a circle will “count down.” Sometimes you may need to get a better positioning of the document, as the blue may cover only a portion of the paper if there are fold lines or wrinkles. Scannable will always launch into the camera, because that’s the main part of the app - it’s a scanner. But in reality, it’s so simple that this isn’t needed - you’ll get the hang of it right away. When you launch the app for the first time, you’ll get a brief little introduction video that shows you the basics for using the app. The app also works quickly, unlike some other scanners I’ve tried in the past. The interface for Scannable is minimal and clean, which is fantastic. Now that it’s available, it’s becoming one of my favorite scanning apps for Evernote. When I heard that they were coming out with a new app, I was pretty excited to get my hands on it. To me, Evernote is my “digital brain dump,” and I’m sure that it is that for many of you as well. I even have some IFTTT recipes that automate getting links or articles into Evernote for me. Instead, I use Evernote for everything except writing - it’s the place I dump document scans, PDFs, Web clippings, links, and anything else I happen to come across that I want to save.

I’ve been an Evernote user for a few years now, but it’s not an app that I like to write in. It’s similar to other apps out there, such as my other favorite, Scanbot. If you are looking to move into a paper-free life, and use Evernote to file everything away, then Evernote Scannable is an app you must check out. Evernote Scannable (Free) by Evernote is the latest app from the folks behind all-in-one note-taking and document app, Evernote, and it’s one of the best ways to scan any paper that comes your way.

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