Dropbox brings document scanner to Android

Dropbox just released some new updates for its mobile apps. The big feature coming to Android is the app’s document scanner, which was initially launched on iOS. The doc scanner lets you scan printed or handwritten documents right from your mobile phone. It’ll let you crop or rotate the scans to get the image right. Dropbox will even let you scan multiple pages into on PDF. For Dropbox Business users, the service is adding the ability to search for keywords within the scans.

Launched alongside this update, Dropbox updated its Paper mobile apps for Android and iOS to get offline support. It’ll let you create new documents or access, edit, and comment on recent or favorite docs. These’ll then sync when you get back online.

Source: Dropbox Blog

FiftyThree's Paper app now compatible with the iPhone

FiftyThree Team's stellar Paper app for the iPad made it a great tool for drawing, sketching and annotating documents. FiftyThree also made the Pencil, which made it easy to use it as a stylus and drawing tool. Now that Apple has its own Pencil, many app and accessory makers are going to try and figure out what they will do.

Well, FifityThree has pivoted rather quickly and now made it available to the iPhone for free. With Paper on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, creatives can:

• Take & Annotate Photos: Take new photos, or import them from your camera roll. You can write or draw on top of them, or use Paper’s spotlight feature to call attention to specific details.
• Type Notes & Make Lists: Type notes, and simply swipe your finger left or right to create bullet points. Then tap on items to check them off.
• A Different View: Ideas are arranged by Spaces. All Ideas within a Space can be easily moved and arranged, like a wall of sticky notes.
• Connect Pencil. To celebrate Paper, they’re having a limited time sale on Pencil. Shop now.

Review: Sensu Brush

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Tablet manufacturers make a lot of noise about how cool it is to draw, sketch and create on digital tablets which are 'just like paper'. The problem is that most tablets don't come with the required digitizer and stylus technology to enable accurate artistic creation.

Some that offer styli sadly enable them to be used only on proprietary software which is okay for basic sketching but won't get real artists excited because they wont work with third party apps.  Here's where the Sensu Brush might be a game changer.

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