My Favorite Apps: JotNot Pro

My next app in my Favorite App series is a scanner app, called JotNot Pro

(currently iOS only)

I’ve had this one for a while and it’s still one of the best apps I’ve ever used and worth the $4.99 for the Pro version.  It’s paid for itself many times over though there is a scaled back free version that you should try first.  I feel like a spy when I scan a document with JotNot and destroy the document because I have a flatbed scanner quality scan of my document.  I save the document as a PDF or JPG (picture) and leave it on my phone or more typically shoot it right over to my Dropbox, a free cloud storage that I wrote about here.  Here’s a little more about some of the cool features of this app.

• Scan Anything – Receipts, full page documents or anything you would take a picture of can be scanned. You may think that this is just a fancy picture app, but most camera apps don’t let you adjust the area to be saved  or use various editing options to modify your document before you save it.  Have a multipage document you need to scan and send and are nowhere near a scanner or fax machine?  This app handles multiple pages seamlessly.  I scan membership cards, business cards, notes, whiteboards at work, my drivers license, all of the family’s social security cards and just about anything that I would want to have a digital backup of and then be able to access with my Dropbox.

• Fax Machine on your phone! – Another cool feature, though at a small per use cost, is JotNot will allow you to scan and fax documents. Talk about handy!  There’s been so many times where I’ve needed to send a document to some place that still uses fax machines (hard to believe but true) and I don’t have a fax machine at home and don’t like to fax personal documents from work, this saved me a trip to the FedEx store to pay some inflated cost per sheet to send it.

• Save to many places – As I mentioned above, you can save your scanned item in many different ways or share it via email. Some of the supported apps to share with include Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs with OCR and Box.net to name a few.

• Other cool features – You can adjust the file size of your scans in case you have limits on what you are doing with them. You can preview your PDF as it appears on a computer, export to other iOS apps such as iBooks or print with AirPrint.  JotNot will automatically detect standard page sizes like letter, A4 or legal for standard documents.  It will also detect edges and process images to remove shadows, correct contracts and adjust white balance.

There are a multitude of features in this app so I hope you try out JotNot as it’s such a handy app to have with you wherever you take your phone.

If you want to share your own JotNot ideas, I would love to hear them in the comments section.