Genius Scan - PDF Scanner

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4.6
404K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Genius Scan is a scanner app that lets you quickly scan your paper documents on the go and export them as multiple scan PDF files.

*** 20+ million users and 1000s of small businesses use the Genius Scan scanner app ***

Place any document in front of your device’s camera: our scanner app automatically recognizes the paper against the background, crops it, and cleans up the result. You obtain a crisp, legible scan. The batch scanner lets you scan dozens of pages in a matter of seconds. Powerful tools help you organize, share, or archive your PDF documents.

Genius Scan will replace your desktop scanner and you will never look back.

== KEY FEATURES ==

Smart Scanning:

The Genius Scan scanner app includes all the features to make great scans.

- Document detection & background removal
- Distortion correction
- Shadow removal and defect cleanup
- Filters (black & white, whiteboard, photo)
- Batch scanning

PDF Creation & Editing:

Genius Scan is the best PDF scanner. Scan not just to images, but full PDF documents.

- Automatically combine each scan into PDF documents
- Document merging & splitting
- Multiple page PDF creation
- Photos and PDF import

Security & Privacy:

- On-device document processing
+ Biometric unlock
+ PDF password encryption

Scans Organization:

More than just a PDF scanner app, Genius Scan also lets you organize your scans.

- Document tagging
- Metadata and content search
+ Smart document renaming (custom templates, …)
+ Backup and multi-device sync with Genius Cloud (separate subscription)

Export:

Your scans aren't stuck in your scanner app, you can export them to any other app or services you use.

- Email
+ Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Expensify, Google Drive, OneDrive, FTP, WebDAV.
+ Any WebDAV compatible service such as Citrix ShareFile, NextCloud, ownCloud, Synology, Yandex.
+ Automatic background auto-export

OCR (Text Recognition):

In addition to scanning, this scanner app gives you additional understanding of your scans.

+ Extract text from each scan
+ Searchable PDF creation
+ Scan business cards to create contacts

The features denoted with [+] are available as part of a Genius Scan Plus subscription.

== ABOUT US ==

It’s in the heart of Paris, France that The Grizzly Labs develops the Genius Scan scanner app. We take pride in crafting apps that help millions of users throughout the world and hold ourselves to the highest standards in terms of quality and privacy. Get in touch with us @thegrizzlylabs if you have any questions.
Updated on
Jul 22, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Photos and videos and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
395K reviews
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November 15, 2022
To get some basic extra function like saving on Google drive etc, you need to pay monthly instead of one time payment, it makes the usage way too expensive for basic extra functionality. I would understand if you use in house cloud, but just to export to a third party. It's too expensive. But i guess it's the new business model like adobe, Microsoft& co are doing. You don't pay once, you pay continuously...
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The Grizzly Labs
November 14, 2022
Hi, I'm sorry to hear that our business model isn't satisfactory to you. We decided to switch to subscriptions to develop new key features and fix bugs far more frequently while removing all ads and respecting our customers' privacy. We understand that it's not to everyone's liking. I hope you can still enjoy our app in the future.
Nick Harding
June 24, 2024
Reasonable. Some niggles, eg smart renaming doesn't seem to be available for android, despite being a listed feature of ultra. Although I am subscribed to ultra I keep getting messages saying my documents aren't being synced. Also, doesn't seem to be a way to turn on text recognition for all documents. Tagging is a bit clunky, particularly when using to search
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The Grizzly Labs
June 24, 2024
Hi Nick, concerning smart document renaming, you're right, it's not yet available on Android, but we're currently working on it. For your other remarks, I'd be very interested to get a more detailed feedback from you. Would you mind sending us an email at android.support@thegrizzlylabs.com with any details you may find useful (screenshots...)?
David Blevins
July 3, 2024
Genius Scan been a game changing app for my business. I have never seen an app come anywhere close in terms of making it easy to add, remove, sort, shuffle or reorder PDF documents, combining into one document. It is highly effective and the fact that it is free,n almost makes me feel like I am doing something wrong or taking advantage of something lol. Thanks for this power tool! 💪🏻
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What's new

- We’ve improved the document search when querying with multiple terms
- Error messages after failed exports have been improved to be more explicit