Simple Scan Release Notes

Easy, hassle-free document scanning for iPhone.

Simple Scan Release Notes

6.0

  • Support for [[input]] tag in custom destination fields. If present, after scanning you will be prompted to enter text to replace that placeholder tag in the output. This is particularly targetted at generating file names on the fly for a destination. It can be used in combination with static text or existing date tags. So, if you use a file name template of [[date]]-[[input]] you would get a prompt where you could enter “Gas Receipt” and get the output file named “2024-08-15-Gas Receipt.pdf”, etc. Learn more about configuring custom destinations.
  • Select custom symbols to assign to custom destinations
  • Control Center integration. Add controls to Control Center to launch directly to scan to specific destinations.
  • iOS 18 Only: Add dark mode and tinted mode ready app icon versions
  • New: In-app template help to copy tags for easy pasting into destination configuration fields.
  • Update widget design to display destination information when size allows.
  • iOS 18 compatibility updates.

5.0

  • “Text” format option shares on the text recognized by optical character recognition as plain text. This can be output to a text file, or shared to other applications as text.
  • Global accent color options available settings, in case you are not a fan of the default teal.
  • Misc. minor improvements.

4.0

  • New “Photos” destination to save scan as images in the photo library without additional interaction.
  • Custom destinations now can be enabled/disabled to allow hiding of destinations without completely deleting them.
  • Tighten up quality options to provide smaller file sizes for lower quality options.
  • “From” address wasn’t getting passed to email destinations properly.
  • Custom file destinations could fail if any changes to the target folder were made that effected permissions. If you had failures on a custom file destination periodically, these should be resolved.
  • If you cancel and email or messages destination, the completion banner should not show.
  • Mail being disabled also disabled Messages erroneously.

3.0

  • Configurable widgets: Edit Home and Lock Screen widget options to pre-select a destination and format associated with the widget.
  • Shortcuts Improvements: The “Scan Document” shortcuts action can now specify destination, format, and quality.
  • Long-Press Menu: Long-press the app icon on the Home Screen to quickly scan to a recently used destination.
  • URL Scheme Parameters: The /scan URL action can now take parameter to specify destination, format, and quality. See automation docs for more information.
  • Option to configure “from” address for email destinations. Must match an email address configured for use with Mail.
  • Tweaks to prevent OCR text clipping in some extreme cases.
  • More sensible page sizing for PDFs
  • Require iOS 17.4.

2.0.1

  • Set default name for custom destinations
  • Tightened up sizing of OCR text to prevent some cases where it could get clipped when drawing.
  • Better cleanup of temp files.
  • Prevent extra appearances of release notes.

2.0

  • Custom file destinations allow you to configure destinations with custom file naming, and saved folder destinations to auto-save your scans without further interaction.
  • Improvements to other custom destinations, including options for controlling file names.
  • Bug fixes and improvements.

1.0

  • Initial Release
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