Tiny Doc: PDF Scanner App Reviews

I’m looking at TinyDoc compared to others. Unless you’re a freak using your car as an office you probably don’t spend a lot of time scanning things with your phone. Yet other developers act like you do and want to charge you $7 a month for the ability to scan documents with your phone. That’s stupid.

But you’re not. You’re going with TinyDoc. These guys have the proper business model. If I was them I’d probably charge a bit more for it because it’s worth it. But $5 for an amazingly easy-to-use application that can potentially make your life easier? I figured the LEAST I could do was give them a great review and five stars. It’s worth that and tons more if you ask me.

You never know when you’ll need to scan and send something. You’d probably better get this.

When I first got TinyDoc I never thought I would use it the way I have. There have been times when my home network was down, or my home scanner was not cooperating, and I found myself in need for scanning and emailing a document. Tiny Scanner saved the day. As an educator, there have been times I have seen wonderful ideas hanging in other teachers classrooms and I took a picture in hopes of sharing the ideas with others. It’s much easier to share and print a PDF file than a JPEG file. The other uses are too many to mention here. I have organized folders of files and appreciate the ease with which files can be moved within TinyDoc . I’m on the road a lot and often times can’t get an Internet connection so I appreciate the workhorse this little app is.

Saw the great reviews and was excited to use it. Having a mobile scanner for my expenses would be a real time saver UNFORTUNATELY its 7:30 on a Sunday night and it’s a USELESS WASTE. It scans fine but when I go to log in to Dropbox to upload the scan I keep getting an error message that says old version has been retired. I upgraded my dropbox app a week ago so after wasting 40 mins deleting dropbox app and reinstalling it and getting the same message, I threw in the towel. After posting this review I’ll be deleting the tiny scanner app and uploading something more reliable. Clearly I’m in the minority about how good TinyDoc is but my experience is that I’m notable to save the scans to Dropbox so its basically a glorified camera which I already have. SIMPLY STATED VERY DISAPPOINTED that it does NOT perform as advertised and is only good for taking pictures.
Developers please feel free to reach out when your app can upload to Dropbox and I’ll be happy to try it again. Till then someone else’s app will be helping me scan my business documents.

I think Tiny Scanner is amazing. I have used it more times than I can count. It has virtually eliminated my need for a printer that scans and a FAX machine. I love that I can carry it with me wherever I go and I can immediately scan documents and save them as PDF. I use it to copy my prescriptions before I turn them over to a pharmacy. I recently used it at a courthouse to copy and store a copy of the paperwork for the transfer of deed to me that was being submitted to and kept by a county courthouse. I even use it to submit documents to my CPA. I think it consistently provides quality copies and it even allows you to add multiple pages together under one scan and you can control the lightness/darkness of the copy and the borders of the image saved! A real time and money saver.

I love this little app. Take a picture of a document or import a picture from your photo album. Adjust the four corners using a simple interface in order to square up the image. Lighten or darken the image so the text shows clearly. Give it a title. Save it to whatever location you want: Dropbox, Evernote, iCloud, etc. Choose the location manually or set to automatic. Or mail it, text it. You can use wifi to download with a desktop browser. Bam! Done. And it can even scan multiple pages and save to one PDF. And it can scan to many page sizes: A3, A4, A5, letter, legal, even "business card."

Of course, the image of the document must be taken with the camera reasonably parallel to the document. But TinyDoc does a remarkably good job making the document appear rectangular in its final form. There are expensive programs that can correct chromatic aberration and big distortions but that is overkill for me.

My only wish is that it would allow import into Omnifocus and DevonThink, but these are easy workarounds.

When I need a quick scan of a receipt or magazine article or simple document, this is TinyDoc I reach for. Truly a doc scanner PDF maker in your pocket.

Pros:
- Only cost $4.99 for unlimited space??!
- One time fee and NOT a subscription
- It is very simple to use
- You can auto upload to a bunch of different places to store files (OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.)
- It detects very well
- You can have many different options of how you want the scan (Page size, coloring, etc.)

Cons:
- My only con is a strange one, but I hope it’ll be fixed. When you scan a whole bunch of papers and put it into a pdf, you can’t go back and take any pages out. The only thing you can do is rearrange the pages or delete them. I wish you could simply take a paper out of the pdf incase you put a random pdf into it by accident. For example, I scan 8 pages of sheet music. When I put all of the pdfs into one, I accidentally put a different document into it. I would have liked to just take it out of the pdf and back into my files, but I could only delete it, keep it in there, or rearrange the order of the pages.

If you guys could fix that issue so that way you can take individual pages out of a pdf and back into your documents, that would be amazing.

Either way I love TinyDoc. It is super helpful!!

When I got Tiny Scanner I didn't have high expectations. Thought maybe I'd use it occasionally. Big surprise came when I had to e-mail a copy of a 36" x 48" print of a detailed machine part. Our "wide format" scanner wasn't working, and I was in mild panic. With no other practical way to copy the entire print, I thought I'd use Tiny Scanning to copy small sections. But while attempting the first "scan" I saw it was possible to get the entire print on the screen. After taking the scan, I was totally amazed at the detail. Even the smallest lettering was clear and sharp.
Since then, I have used Tiny Scanner to capture other big things including the dry-marker boards in the conference room. Instant copies for everyone at the meeting!

I've used TinyDoc daily for years to create multi-page PDFs of my photos from my picture gallery. It was the absolute best app I'd found for quickly generating documents from photos and screenshots. Before the update I could generate about a dozen 20-35 page pdfs an hour. Now I can generate 2-3.

I hope the developers will make a setting where the auto crop can be turned off. The new update forces you manually override the auto crop setting on each individual page. The past version also generated the entire document at once. Now I am forced to click "next" for every page. This is a HUGE slowdown in the process. The new interface looks nice, but is far more complex than the simple drag-and-drop functionality of the past versions. Hopefully the developers can bring this former 5 star app back to its former glory.

Until then, I'm forced to look elsewhere for a scanner app that compares to previous versions of this one.

Love TinyDoc. I have to turn in my receipts for work every week. With TinyDoc I start a new PDF every Monday by simply opening TinyDoc , taking a picture of the first receipt, clicking okay to accept the pic. It prompts for a file name. I add my current client's name to the front of the default name (the date) and for the rest of the week I click that dated file, the "+" and save away my receipts. At the end of the week I have a clear list of expenses and the electronic proof, even keeping multiple clients separate in the same week. To turn in my receipts I click the upload to my iCloud button, then attach the file to my expense report's webpage. Amazing, easier to use TinyDoc than write this review :-). Thank you!!

I managed to snag TinyDoc early when it was free and have been using it infrequently for all sorts of scanning purposes for a good number of years now. It is excellent! Easy to use, simple interface that handles all needs of the user. I NEVER use the scanner that came integrated with my printer. TinyDoc is easier and more capable. I have been wholly satisfied with this and would have gladly paid for it. Only critique I can make is that the symbology used in the interface is a little bit confusing at first (e.g. how does a person know that an icon with four tiny arrows pointing toward four invisible corners will let you change the name of the file? Admittedly, most icons are intuitive though.) Overall, A+++.

When my family began trying to share old family letters in the 1980’s, photocopying was the best option. Later, saving scans to CD’s was considered, as was scanning on a printer’s flatbed. Then a few years ago I learned of Tiny Scanner and have never looked back!

Tiny scanner does an excellent job of scanning these many hundreds of letters quickly and efficiently—in any setting! Its portability (on my phone) is high on my list of recommendations. Over the few years I have used it, Tiny Scanner has continued to improve its features and make scanning even more convenient. It has made my job of scanning and saving to Google Drive infinitely easier, and for that I much appreciate it.

I have tried several scanner apps, and this is by far the best. I saw some family using it, one an attorney and the other a global consultant for a large firm and realized how easy it was to use. I also thought that if an attorney that is always creating legal documents to share said it was the best and great to use when out of the office, it must be valuable. The editing to adjust the cropping, lighting, focus, and clarity are so intuitive and easy. I wasn’t using it for professional reasons, but to scan a recipe and then add it to my recipe files in Evernote. It was effortless. The PDF file can be stored or used in multiple apps, an asset I appreciate when forwarding scans to emails, texts, or other apps.

I have used this in business to scan receipts for reimbursement, then I don’t have to worry about keeping in order as you just add the next page with each receipt. I use it every month to quickly send documents requested while at home. This compiles my pages in B&W or color and I can select the size of the pdf to send in email and I am done. I had to fax a document and went straight to the tiny fax as TinyDoc has been great and the two work together nicely. You don’t have to travel to use this. Being on quarantine with students is enough. I’ve told all my teacher friends about TinyDoc.

Don’t write reviews often but really compelled to give TinyDoc some well deserved recognition.

This has been my go to app for scanning everything! I paid for the pro version years ago and boy has it paid off. Having paper everywhere is such a mess and hassle. Been scanning my important receipts, service, documents then shredding the hard copies to save on clutter. Cloud storage integration makes saving the scanned copies a snap. Finding those receipts from years ago is now a breeze. Just be sure to come up with a good naming convention. The devs continuously updates TinyDoc for fixes and new features.

Love TinyDoc!

This is a great app for scanning receipts and documents on the go. I rated it 4 (in my first review) only because of the process for naming each app. If you want a name other than the default, you must delete the default name and enter a new name for every scan. It would help if you could set your own name prefix or choose to enter your own name each time without first having to delete the default name.
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UPDATE: I have changed my opinion of TinyDoc greatly. It will not upload to Dropbox any longer. When uploading to One Drive, I am asked for all sorts of permissions to access personal information. I paid for TinyDoc to avoid such things. TinyDoc scans really well but GET OUT OF MY PERSONAL INFO!
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Contacting support is a waste of time. They said that the next update would resolve the issue. Two updates later and nothing has changed.

Only other app this useful is MAYBE Safari...I use this ALLLL the time & it has very smart, useful & easy features. No, it won’t look EXACTLY like a PDF (usually), but for someone like myself that HATES paper but HAS to have copies if EVERYTHING....this is great. I can title my copies, & I have them auto uploaded to my Google Drive (have used Evernote too...there’s lots of options) upon saving, then just click “email me” & it pulls the email up with the title in subject line & attachment and all I have to do is hit “send” for it to forward to my personal email (or any you want) so I can keep organized & keep digital files on my computer. It’s BRILLIANT & **FREE** & I love it!!!

This is the greatest app created for business. With TinyDoc it's possible to log and send documents in before the next call. No longer do you need to keep receipts. With TinyDoc it's possible to file receipts immediately and the receipts are much easier to read as a PDF. My accountant loves TinyDoc. With tiny fax included you can even fax that stack of documents to your realtor. This actually happened to a friend of mine. He didn't have time to go to the copy store and fax the documents. I scanned them in with tiny scanner and faxed them with tiny fax. For $5 I replaced my scanner and fax machine. Thank you to the people that engineered TinyDoc.

I've been all digital for eight years now—meaning I scan everything instead of filing papers. I used Neat products for a few years, but then the scanner broke (my fault). As phone cameras have continued to improve, I've tried several different apps, and this is my favorite. It's the scanner I use to maintain my digital filing system. Tiny Scanner is fast. I'm able to scan a receipt or document quickly, then with two taps I upload it to Dropbox. Now the file is on my computer and I move it to the correct spot in my system. As I've become more rehearsed with it, I'm able to scan and file a number of items in minutes.

I’ve had TinyDoc for 4 years now and love it. The price is great for someone who doesn’t do a ton of scanning but a dozen times a year. And it’s great if you do a ton of scanning. I bought a new phone and went from apple to Samsung and back to apple and for some reason I couldn’t get it to transfer or show that I already paid for it. And I didn’t feel like going back and forth with customer service even though they are very helpful. Point is I love TinyDoc so much I just paid the price again to get TinyDoc and was perfectly happy doing it. Especially since it works flawlessly.

It's by no means a perfect app, but for a very low cost—I think it's low, I've been using TinyDoc for years and don't remember if I paid for it or not—it's been effective for scanning documents for research and personal use.

It's not great for capturing detail, the flash sometimes overexposes the image, and I often find myself contorting to hide my shadow, but it's easier to use than fussing with the copy machine to copy receipts for reimbursements or scanning several pages to use for research out of the library.

I wish there was a better way to save captured images to a cloud so I don't have to email them from iphone to ipod to ipad... maybe a cloud based memory unit rather than relying on my phone's memory...