Genius Scan
  • Getting Started
    • Quick Start Guide
      • Genius Scan at a glance
      • Scan documents
      • Take quality scans
      • Quick edit actions
  • Document Management
    • Viewing & Editing Documents
      • Edit, crop and rotate a scan
      • Renaming documents
      • Change a document's page size
      • Delete a document
      • Delete a page
      • Sign and annotate your scans
      • Set up a default filter
    • Organizing Documents
      • Sorting documents
      • Tagging documents and managing tags
      • Create and manage folders
      • Select multiple documents
      • Search your documents
    • Managing Multi-Page Documents
      • Select multiple pages
      • Adding pages to an existing document
      • Merging and splitting documents
      • Reordering pages
      • Moving pages between documents
    • Text Recognition / OCR
      • Enable text recognition
      • Copy text of my scans
      • Search scans with their content
      • Scan and extract a business card
      • Apply Text Recognition on all your old documents
    • Importing pictures and files
      • Import pictures and files (PDF, JPEG...)
      • Import Word, Excel, Web Documents
  • Exporting & Sharing
    • Export Formats & Options
      • Export Scans as PDF
      • Export Scans as JPEG
      • Export Scans as Text
      • Adjusting export settings
    • Export Destination & Shortcuts
      • Manual export instructions
      • Share a document by email
      • Update the email used to export a document
      • Configuring export shortcuts
      • Auto-export rules and configuration
      • Check a document's export history
      • Verify if your documents have been backed up
      • Automatically delete a document after export
    • Service-Specific Guides
      • Export to another app
      • Export to WhatsApp
      • Export via WebDAV
      • Export via FTP
      • Export to the photo gallery
      • Export to Canvas
      • Export via SFTP/FTPS
      • Export to a computer
      • Export to your device memory
      • Export to QuickBooks Online
      • Print documents
    • Expense Reports
      • Set up expense report
      • Generate an expense report
  • Cloud Storage & Backup
    • Back up Overview
    • Built-in Cloud Overview
      • Synchronization & Backup
      • Offloading documents
      • How documents sync across devices automatically
      • Search and filter documents
      • Resolving synchronisation conflicts ⚠️
    • Manual Back-up
    • Transfer Documents to a New Device
  • Subscription, Plans & Account Management
    • Plan Details & Comparison
      • How to subscribe to an advanced plan
      • What happens when my subscription expires?
      • What plan do I have?
      • Cancel your subscription
      • Upgrade or downgrade my subscription
      • Get a receipt from your purchase history
      • Ask for a refund
      • Share my purchase with my family
    • Account Management
      • Create your account
      • Delete your account
      • Update your email address
      • Reset your password
    • Buying Multiple Licenses Online
      • Buy licenses online
      • Manage your licenses
      • Manage billing information
      • Understand pricing & renewal
  • Security & Privacy
    • Document Protection
    • Privacy & Security Overview
    • Privacy Policy
  • Advanced & Developer Resources
    • Genius Scan SDK
    • Configure Genius Scan with a MDM
    • Launch Genius Scan from another app (Developers Guide)
  • Other topics
    • Accessibility Features
    • Troubleshooting & FAQ
      • Troubleshoot Scanning
        • Better automatic document detection
        • How to remove shadows from my scans?
        • My scans are upside down, how can I fix that?
        • What is the DPI of my Scans?
        • How to disable the shutter sound?
        • The camera doesn't work
      • Troubleshooting Email Problems
        • Emails are not sending, or your recipient receives them after a long time
        • The Send button is inactive when I try to email a scanned document
        • An error message tells me my email is not configured
        • I receive multiple emails from Genius Scan
        • I can't send an email on Android
      • I thought I signed up for an account but I can't log in anymore
      • How to recover lost or deleted documents?
      • Genius Scan is taking too much space, what can I do?
      • How to improve the quality of Text Recognition?
      • How to fix the Genius Scan iCloud Drive folder not appearing?
      • Genius Scan is stuck updating
      • How to restore the purchase of the Genius Scan premium features?
      • Why isn't Text Recognition running?
      • How to change Genius Scan's language?
    • Known Issues
      • Send a bug or crash report
      • Scans are blurry on iPhone 15
      • Unable to log in to Expensify
      • Unable to log in to Evernote
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Last updated 1 month ago

You can easily search your documents by their , , or content (if you enabled ).

You can look for documents from the Genius Scan's home screen or inside a folder. Looking for a document from your home screen will automatically search through all the documents stored on your Genius Scan App. Using the search bar inside a folder will let you choose between searching for a document amongst all your documents or only in that particular folder.

Looking for a document from the home screen

  1. Open Genius Scan and tap the Search icon.

  1. Type the name of your document in the Search field. A list of all the documents that share this name will appear. You can also tap the tag icon to search a document with its tags.

  1. Open Genius Scan and tap the Search icon.

  1. Type the name of your document in the Search field. A list of all the documents that share this name will appear. You can also tap the Tags button to search a document with its tags.

Tap the "Pertinence" tab to sort your documents alphabetically or chronologically.

If you are subscribed to an advanced plan and Text Recognition is applied to your documents, you can also search them with their content, not only their name or tags.

Looking for a document from inside a folder

Open a folder and tap the Search icon. Choose All documents to look through all the documents in your app, or choose Current folder to limit the search to the folder.

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The search button is shown as a magnifying glass at the top of your screen
Documents appear under the search field
The search button is shown as a magnifying glass at the top of your screen
Documents appear under the search field
Two buttons appear under the search field
An orange box appears where you can choose between the two options