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The crop screen is poorly designed; it’s too easy to double tap and reset the cropping guide. Furthermore, accidentally tapping “apply to all” will ruin all your previous work (deleting 300 pages worth of manual cropping is NOT fun). The “edit” interface is even worse. Try selecting pages to rearrange the order; it’s a disaster with inconsistent and unexpected behavior that will basically ruin all the work you put into scanning a book. This happened to me on two different book scans (the second time being extra careful). Terrible terrible UI design. Shameful. Bottom line: this app was designed by some low paid devs who don’t care about the quality of their work. I will be cancelling payment and looking elsewhere. I would advise you do the same.

I gave this 2 instead of 1 star only because while it was really neat to see how this works, and it seems to do it as well as advertised, that’s all you get for free. This is probably a great app but I’ll never know because I never got an opportunity to properly try it before I was locked out in true bait and switch fashion. One is lead to believe that the user is limited to scanning/storing 5 pages at a time. In truth you get 5 attempts to scan and item and that’s it. I first fumbled with my phone while trying to hold a book open long enough to take a decent photo. Then by the time I figured out which type of text to convert it to, after a bit of trial-and-error, I discovered I had used up my 5 tries and felt like a total sucker. You can play then you have to pay. So enjoy those 5 minutes.

This used to be my scan app. I have used it for years. I scanned everything. I used the free version, it displayed ads, no problem. Then it updated and it only allowed 10 scans total. Not 10 each document, but 10 pages total. I have documents that I scanned over 10 pages that are now gone forever. It was nice while it lasted, I would buy the app, but they want to subscribe monthly or yearly or whatever. Good thing iPhone now allows you to scan documents via the “Notes”. Open notes and use camera and it has “Scan Notes”. It will make a file on your iPhone for free. The FineScanner app is irrelevant. Sad, I liked it and it was very useful, but a 10 page limit has ruined the app.