vFlat Scan - PDF & OCR Scanner

vFlat Scan is an incredible tool for scanning, but the current photo import interface is a major bottleneck for power users. Currently, the app uses a custom wrapper for the photo library that is significantly less functional than the standard iOS implementation. If you import photos from an external camera (which many of us do for high-quality scans), the app forces a "Recents" view that sorts by "date added" rather than "date taken," leading to a completely scrambled order. I currently wasted a ton of credits before i realized it was importing them all in the wrong order and wasted 2 hours finding a workaround to keep them in order by creating manual albums in the native Photos app just to get vFlat to recognize the correct chronological order. Also pretty silly it doesn’t let me import jpg scans from Files app either :/. PLEASE PLEASE update the app to use the official Apple PHPicker API or add the following features: Native 'Photo Library' View: Allow us to view the full library sorted by original metadata (Date Taken). Album Search Bar: For users with hundreds of albums, scrolling through a random list is impossible. We need a way to filter/search for specific albums. Standard Sorting: Ensure albums and photos follow the system-default sorting logic rather than the current disorganized layout. Implementing the native Apple Photo Library UI would solve all of these issues instantly, as it already includes search, proper sorting, and a familiar interface that every other major iOS app uses. This one change would make this a 5-star app for professional and high-volume workflows!

At first it didn’t straighten out the lines of a scanned book at all - its most important feature. But when I downloaded the paid version it at least tried. This isn’t a smart business strategy - making the trial version ineffective. But anyway… Even the paid version is not perfect. It is good enough for personal use I suppose, but takes some practice and trial and error to scan flat documents properly, and scanning books fails to create acceptable scans 25% of the time. Text would not be straightened near the spine, or some words would be enlarged or out of focus, or part of the page would be cropped out. You really have to flatten the book pages to get it to work more often that that. So one star lost for that. It loses an additional star for its confusing user interface on both the iPhone and PC. It is awkward to upload scans, view date/time of each one on the PC, and even see which pages go with which documents. On the PC it just shows you a list of all the pages (as JPGs) that you’ve ever scanned. Combining the pages is a very manual process requiring Adobe Acrobat Pro or similar tool. The interface on the phone app isn’t much better. It needs a lot of work.

This app has been a great tool for helping me catch up on reading my physical books. I scan the particular chapter of the book I’m reading. The scans are fast and high-quality. They are also arranged in the correct order. Feature requests : 1. In the ‘Text’ view, pls provide different background modes - eg. A dark mode, sepia page mode, light green like the Kindle app. 2. In the Text mode, please allow edits to correct minor errors in the text recognition. All over, a fantastic app. I look forward to using more Text Recognition with paid credits. I hope the developers listen to the community and update the app with requested features.