A workhorse of an app
This is one of the first apps I *needed* to install on my first iPhone (and that was on one of the first iPhone models!) and to this day it’s one of the apps I *need* to use the most. So much so that it has always been on the first screen of my many, many home screens (otherwise I’d be swiping left all the time to get to it).
Sure, sometimes just taking a photo with your iPhone camera works, but when you need a scan, whether b/w or color, and you want to easily crop out the surrounding stuff, or adjust for a skewed perspective without navigating all the Photo edit options in the Photos app, this is the go to. And the way it can deliver a composite of three consecutive shots of an object to give you the sharpest version (if I rightly understand what it’s doing) feels far more precise than just relying on my own photographic skills. Even if I’ve misstated exactly how those 3 shots come together to deliver a final, I just know that I generally need only ONE “3X” pass with TurboScan, rather than several attempts using the phone’s camera myself, to get what I need.Awesome. I’ve been using it A LOT for years.
Nobody understands how I get everything done from my iPhone.
it scans everything from documents to screenshots from my computer screen with beautiful detail.
No matter how much I want to try a different make of phone, I don’t want to lose hard working apps like this one.
The only thing I don’t like with the version I have is that I have to email PDFs to myself and file them so that I can retrieve and attach multiple docs to my email… wasn’t a problem before aging Apple finally, after decades, made it possible to attach more than one attachment to an email!
But, it forces me to file things and have them backed up… but the ability to attach multiple documents from TurboScan …it’s not in my version.
The coolest thing is that when I upgrade my iPhone, I still have my awesome TurboScan scanner… no desk space taken …up no equipment to replace other than the iPhone!
Another really great thing is that I can quickly modify the borders of the document no matter what format I save it as.
I just lay a document on a color contrasted surface so that it can set the borders automatically, hold the phone above the document and it automatically scans three times… no buttons to push like when you take a picture. kind of scary really.Developer Response
Hello and thanks for your detailed review! Glad TurboScan works for you! You can actually select several scans on the main TurboScan screen (first use Select on top-right) and attach them all to your email. Thanks again. MattFantastic document scanner, I wish it helped me manage the documents just a bit better
TurboScan has made it so much faster and easier for me to capture documents. I can scan receipts, sign-in sheets, vendor’s licenses and certificates, all sorts of documents in the field or in my office. I no longer use my scanner because TurboScan gives me results in jpeg or pdf with such great ease. My scans are always clear, they crop correctly automatically almost every time, really fantastic scanner.
Then I can send the files via iMessage or email with supreme ease.
I only wish I could upload the documents directly to Dropbox. That feature would get a fifth star from me as it is the only possible complaint I can come up with for this otherwise faultless app. Full disclosure, I’ve been using this app for only about a month.Developer Response
Hello and thanks for your detailed review! You can actually press "Open In../Share" in the action menu and select Save To Dropbox at the bottom. Matt