When comparing Evernote Scannable vs Scanbot, the Slant community recommends Evernote Scannable for most people. In the question“What are the best iOS apps for scanning business cards?” Evernote Scannable is ranked 3rd while Scanbot is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Evernote Scannable is:
Being an Evernote product it is extremely easy to save the data to Evernote.
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Pros
Pro Evernote integration
Being an Evernote product it is extremely easy to save the data to Evernote.
Pro Multi-purpose
This can be used for just about anything, not just business cards, making it essentially a hand held digital scanner.
Pro Contacts
It makes it easy to turn business cards into contacts.
Pro Enhances text
Text from paper materials (like a business cars) are made as legible as possible through bolding, making even handwriting readable.
Pro Fast image capturing
Capturing of content is near instant.
Pro Auto-uploads to numerous cloud services
Cloud integration: iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Evernote, OneDrive, WebDAV, Shoeboxed, etc.
Pro Very fast auto-scanning
Through automatic edge detection scans are taken in a blink of an eye.
Pro Text recognition (OCR) support
Very easily extracts the text of your scans to copy, search, lookup etc.
Pro One-Time Purchase Available
You only need to pay once to upgrade to VIP to unlock all features for life. It's called "Business Access" and it costs $199.99.
Pro Best auto-detection of documents
Fastest and most accurate detection of all document kinds.
Cons
Con Locks up and will not save cards to contacts
There is no tech support.
Con Mostly subscription-based, single purchase option is excessively expensive
Recently they changed from a reasonable one-time purchase model to a mostly subscription model. There is still a one-time purchase option but it's incredibly expensive at $199.99, and an upcoming iOS update is somewhat Sherlocking the broad field of OCR apps by automatically performing OCR on images displayed in native apps.
