SharpScan Guides and Tutorials

First of all — feel free to edit document boundaries as much as you want. SharpScan edit all documents in nondestructive mode you can always revert to original image and edit it again and again.

To manually adjust document please follow the steps below.

1. Open document which you want to edit
2. Tap on Crop icon.
3. Adjust document boundaries by “tap-and-move” document corners. Try to tap not exactly on corner by slightly nearby. This corner will be zoom for your convenience.
4. Rotate document to appropriate angle (if needed).
5. Change document color (if needed). It will be remembered and applied as default in the next scan.
6. Adjust Shadows option.
7. Tap on Done button to apply changes.
8. Change document name.Tap on document property icon . Document Property screen will open. On this screen you can not only rename document but also change its paper size (will be used for PDF creation).
9. Recognise document text by tapping on OCR button.
   • Select language form the list. It will be downloaded if necessary.
   • Tap on Select button.
   • Tap on Recognise button.
   • When recognition process will be finished tap on Done button to save results. Pages with text layer available will have an additional text icon.

Watch brief video tutorial on "How to edit and adjust scanned document" below.

There two main ways to share documents in SharpScan - Automatically upload and Manually.

Automatically upload document with “AutoUpload”

You can use AutoUpload feature to fully automatically upload your documents to favorite cloud sharing service in background.

1. Open Settings by tapping on Gear icon.
2. Choose Upload Accounts.
3. Tap on your favorite cloud service and enter an appropriate credentials (login and password).
4. Tap on AutoUpload option.
5. Switch AutoUpload ON for chosen cloud service.
6. By default, all uploads will go to the root folder of selected service. You can change it by tapping on service name below the list. In opened screen browse to desired folder (or crate new one) and tap on Select.
7. Now all you new and changed documents will be automatically upload to the selected folder of your favorite cloud service.

Important.

• All existing document created before AutoUpload been switched on will not be automatically uploaded (at least until you’ll change/edit them). You’ll need to share them manually.
• Documents will be shared as PDF. To share documents as Image (or text) please do this manually.

Manual document sharing

To manually share any document

1. Open document.
2. Tap on Share icon
3. Select document format: Image, PDF, Text (if was recognised).
4. Pick cloud or system provided service to upload document to.
5. Document will be uploaded.

Multiple document sharing

To share several documents at once please do the following.

1. Select documents by tapping on Select button and taping on appropriate items. Use Select All icon for quick selection of multiple items.
2. Tap on Share icon.
3. Choose document format and service as described above.
4. All selected documents will be uploaded to chosen service.

Share selected page or several pages

Sometime it is useful to share not whole document but only several pages of it. To do this please follow the steps below.

1. Open document which page you want to share.
2. Select pages by tapping on Select button and taping on appropriate items. Use Select All icon for quick selection of multiple items.
3. Tap on Share icon.
4. Choose document format and service as described above.
5. All selected pages will be uploaded to chosen service.

Watch brief video tutorial on "How to share scanned documents" below.

You can use several convenient gestures to speed up you work with SharpScan.

• Swipe right-to-left to Delete list element (document or page).
• Two-Finger Pinch to Zoom pages In and Out.
• Double Tap on any page to Zoom 1:1 In and Out.

Watch brief video tutorial on "How to speed up your work with useful gestures" below.

Sometimes it may be convenient to edit several multi page documents or just several pages in one document in batch. In batch mode you can: change color profile, rotate document clockwise or counterclockwise, redetect document boundaries. To process documents/pages in batch mode please follow the steps below.

1. Select documents (or pages inside document) by tapping on Select button and taping on appropriate items.
2. Use Select All icon for quick selection of multiple items.
3. Tap on Batch processor icon.
4. On Bach processor screen select options you want to change — e.g. Color profile, Rotation, Boundary Redetection.
5. Tap on OK. You’ll see the progress on documents (page) icons.

Watch brief video tutorial on "How to edit multiple documents in batch" below.