SCANNER & FAX PRO

A MOBILE SCANNER AND FAXER. Free 3-day trial; $140 yearly subscription | bigfishapps.me iOS scanning apps are now common, with Apple’s native Notes app now even offering it built-in. So why would you dip your toes into this app? Unfortunately, there are still some services out there (cough, the Australian public health system) that insists on being sent faxes. Yes, faxes. So there’s definitely a need for a service such as this to offer that antiquated method of delivery. Scanning the document is simple, although the ‘auto capture’ feature is a bit eager, meaning you’ll take several auto images before you actually steady your phone above the document in question. After discarding the blurred ones, you can edit the image by brightening it up, rotating, making it black and white, and cropping before saving. It can also digitise the text on the document for you and convert it into a simple text file, should you prefer to scan a doc and rip the text. Once you’re happy with the image, you can select to share it with someone via email, save to Drive, fax it and other useful options. Faxing is a simple matter of selecting the country, entering a fax number and the names of both recipient and sender, then hitting ‘send fax’. The only downside is the monumental cost. You’ll have to cough up $13.99 for a single month after the three-day trial is up, or $139.99 for a full year. Ouch.