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AI · June 21, 2023

ScanBoy – PDF and OCR your docs with a little help from AI

ScanBoy is a lightning fast document scanner. Create high quality PDFs with selectable text and quickly generate filenames using artificial intelligence so that you can move on with your day.

ScanBoy – PDF and OCR your docs with a little help from AI launched on June 21, 2023 with 9 votes, #1,718 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

ScanBoy is a unique document scanning app for iOS and iPadOS.

ScanBoy is a lightning fast document scanner. Create high quality PDFs with selectable text and quickly generate filenames using artificial intelligence so that you can move on with your day. If you want to name your own documents and avoid using AI altogether, you can do that too. Scan and process documents quickly. Save all documents to your favorite folder. Quick optical character recognition algorithm processes all documents so you can select text later. If you scan the same types of document often, save time naming them with filename templates. Generate short, concise filenames based on the content of your scannedfrom deadpan.io

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