What's New Latest: v372
PDF & Image toolkits, and editing scanned text
- ✏️ Edit PDF text — click any text to fix it on digital PDFs, and on scanned pages too via OCR (Acrobat / WPS-style), with Find & Replace across pages. Scanned edits match the document's font & ink shade.
- 📊 PDF → Excel rebuilds the real table — rows, columns and headers exactly as in the PDF (digital or scanned), the page's header block included; choose one sheet or a sheet per page.
- 📄 Full PDF Toolkit on right-click: extract, delete, rotate, split, grayscale, crop, 2-up/4-up, page numbers, watermark, protect/unlock, repair, flatten, PDF→PNG/Word/Excel.
- 🖼 Full Image Toolkit on right-click: convert format, resize, set DPI, rotate, deskew, auto-crop, photo→scan, enhance, B&W, remove shadow, denoise, sharpen, merge, watermark, image→PDF.
- 🪪 Passport-size photo (35×45 mm) and transparent signature extractor — ready for ECHS/RGHS & government form uploads.
- 🎯 Compress any image or PDF under an exact target size (200 KB, 500 KB…) for portal uploads.
- 🖨 Redesigned scan bar — a cleaner floating card with fully-readable Resolution / Colour / Paper / Source / Sides pills.
- Live scan-progress dialog with thumbnail, page counter, settings chips, stall detection, 2-way cancel and a finish summary.
AI editor & offline AI suite
- Brand-new premium Document Editor — grouped toolbar, dark canvas, live status bar, violet theme.
- Offline AI tools: one-click AI Auto, AI Enhance, colour restore for yellowed paper, edge-preserving de-noise, smart crop, 0.1° fine deskew.
- 🩹 Heal tool — drag over a stain, staple mark or finger and AI fills it from the surroundings.
- ✍ Signature/stamp extractor — transparent background, saved into the Sign tool for one-click reuse.
- Tesseract OCR now ships inside the installer — auto-rotate and OCR work out of the box (and self-install on older setups).
- Scan quality guard — blurry / too-dark / faint pages flagged with the page number right after the scan.
- Duplicate warning — re-saving a document ApneScan already knows asks first.
- Phone photos are auto-cleaned on arrival (perspective, shadows, colour, enhance).
- New-document names can include the document number and date automatically.
Smart naming & reliability
- Teach a document's name once (F2) — the same form auto-names next time (English + Hindi).
- Optionally add the bill/invoice/claim number and the date to names automatically.
- Learn a folder per name; export/import learned names between PCs.
Live preview editor
- Big preview with zoom, full-screen and a per-page OCR "Text" tab with Copy.
- One-click rotate, crop, deskew, brighten, contrast, enhance, whiten backing, sign, restore.
Built-in file manager & smart footer
- Folder tree, in-folder search, favourites, and drag pages into a folder to save.
- Status bar shows folder, pages, last file, today's work, worldwide count, disk and version.
Customizable UI & performance
- Toggle dashboard, status header, job chips, preview panel, sidebar graph, Dark Pro theme, kiosk mode.
- All saving, OCR and compression run in the background — the app never freezes.
- In-app one-click auto-update banner.
Capture & PDF tools
- Webcam / USB-camera scanning; phone-photo import; bundle auto-split.
- Full PDF toolkit: compress, merge, split, page editor, sign/stamp, watermark, page numbers, password remove, PDF→Word/Excel/JPG, folder→PDF, archival PDF.
Core fixes
- Fixed a fast-mode feeder jam on eSCL B&W scans.
- Pixel-accurate whitening of grey/black scanner backing for clean prints.
- Fixed the worldwide "today" counter.
Latest version is always at apnescan.apnesoft.com — the app also updates itself automatically.