Genius Scan
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    • Quick Start Guide
      • Genius Scan at a glance
      • Scan documents
      • Take quality scans
      • Quick edit actions
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      • Change a document's page size
      • Delete a document
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      • Sign and annotate your scans
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      • Enable text recognition
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      • Scan and extract a business card
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  • Other topics
    • Accessibility Features
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      • 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
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      • Genius Scan is taking too much space, what can I do?
      • How to improve the quality of Text Recognition?
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      • 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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Apply Text Recognition on all your old documents

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Last updated 1 month ago

Documents scanned before upgrading your app to a Genius Scan advanced plan have not been processed. Here's how to apply Text Recognition to all your old documents at once.

  1. Go to Settings and choose Text Recognition,

  1. Enable Text Recognition if it's not already turned on, and choose Process old documents.

  1. Go to Settings and choose Text Recognition,

  1. Enable Text Recognition if it's not already turned on, and choose Process old documents.

Text recognition is already on if the button next to it is green
A pop up appears letting you know that this operation can take time
Text recognition is already on if the button next to it is bright orange
A pop up appears letting you know that this operation can take time