DocMe - Review - Griffith Boakist

Document scanners tin can be a useful utility for your Windows Phone. Nosotros've already looked at HandyScan and at present turn our sites towards DocMe. DocMe is a simple, straightforward certificate scanner adult by Amberlabs.

As with similar applications, DocMe uses your Windows Phone camera to capture images of documents and converts them into diverse file types. Boosted integration with your Windows Telephone camera includes DocMe being added to your phone's Share Menu. This allows you to have advantage of the photographic camera'southward quick picture and then worry about uploading the image for conversion.

To see how well DocMe performed, merely ease on past the break.

It'south simple simply maybe too simple

DocMe Hub

DocMe lays everything out in a uncomplicated format. You take a three page hub that has a capture page, a recent jobs page and an nigh page. You lot lack the power to change resolutions, paradigm size, or whatsoever attribute of the browse beyond choosing the file format. It's a elementary layout simply mayhap too unproblematic.

Speaking of file formats, DocMe supports conversion of images to: .PDF .DOC EXEL CSV TEXT HTML.

When you lot're prepare to browse a certificate (e.g. business carte du jour, carte, invoices, lesson plan, etc.) simply tap the Select/Capture Paradigm button on the Capture Page and you are sent to the Picture Gallery. From here you can choose an existing image file to convert or launch your camera to capture a new image.

I plant it odd that the app doesn't launch straight to your camera. This seemed to slow the process but then if you prefer y'all can always get straight to your camera; have the photo; and and so launch DocMe from the photographic camera's Share Menu.

Conversion done off-site

Once you capture or choose an image file, the image is sent to a OCR (optical character recognition) engine for conversion. You will then have to get to the Contempo Jobs page of the hub to download your file. I did find it odd that you have to download the image and I'm not sure how long a copy of your image stays off-site. My test image was nonetheless available for download days subsequently I created. I'1000 still trying to determine if this is a good thing or not.

Another concern about the Recent Jobs page is that there'due south no means to delete a certificate. At that place'south not a menu on the page and tapping/belongings doesn't practise annihilation. You do take the ability to e-mail the converted documents but y'all're emailing the download link.

DocMe Sample One DocMe Sample Two

*Notation: Images captured in PDF format and converted to JPG for publication. Click to enlarge

Conversion times tin can exist painfully dull. If you're telephone isn't connect to a Wi-fi network, you'll receive a warning when you launch DocMe that the app works best on a wireless network.

For instance, on 3G information technology wasn't uncommon to see the conversion process took over five minutes to convert and download. Things moved noticeably faster on Wi-Fi with the entire process non taking over two minutes to complete.

Additionally, if y'all cull multiple formats to catechumen your epitome to, this fourth dimension becomes agonizingly slow (regardless of your data connectedness).

The only redeeming factor of the irksome conversion is that the quality was really good. Text came through articulate and readable and images where clear and sharp. Withal, I would have liked to accept seen the ability to choose resolution and file size on DocMe to help speed things up.

Overall Impression

DocMe has potential but when compared to the alternatives, it falls a flake short of expectations.

While conversion quality was excellent, conversion times and the lack of whatsoever settings prevented me from liking DocMe. The simple interface and files types available to covert to was nice but the overall performance made the app defective.

I likewise have reservations on storing images off-site and non beingness able to delete scan jobs. I don't know who has access to this data or how securely information technology is stored. I would experience easier if the server file was deleted in one case the scan is downloaded to your Windows Telephone.

At that place is a costless trial version available that volition let you use the app for three scans. The full version will run yous $.99. I would recommend giving taking advantage of the trial version.

Y'all tin can find DocMe here (opens Zune) at the Marketplace.

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