Scanboy

ScanBoy is an iPhone and iPad document scanner that turns pages into high quality PDFs with selectable text, then uses AI to suggest short, descriptive filenames. Templates handle recurring document types, and manual naming is available for users who prefer to stay in control.

ScanBoy is a document scanner for iPhone and iPad that treats capture as a short errand rather than a project. The pitch is speed: point the camera at a page, let the app process it, and end up with a high quality PDF saved into the folder of your choice. There is no elaborate editing workspace to learn first, and the homepage frames the whole experience around getting in and getting out. The distinctive part is naming. Every scan gets run through an optical character recognition pass, which is what makes the text inside the resulting PDF selectable and searchable later. ScanBoy then uses artificial intelligence to read that extracted content and propose a short, concise filename that describes the document. Anyone who has accumulated a folder of files called Scan 2024-11-03 14.22.07 knows why this matters. Users who would rather stay in control can skip the AI naming entirely and type their own titles, so the feature is optional rather than mandatory. For recurring paperwork, such as receipts, invoices or signed forms, filename templates let you define a naming pattern once and apply it on every scan of that type. The tool suits freelancers, small business owners, students and anyone who deals with paper in small but steady doses and wants a tidy digital archive without a subscription to a heavyweight document management suite. It is deliberately narrow: it captures and names documents well rather than trying to be a full PDF editor or a cloud storage service. Documents land in a folder you choose, which means ScanBoy slots in alongside whatever storage and filing system you already use instead of replacing it. Compared with generic scanning apps that dump files with timestamp names, the value here is the combination of searchable text and sensible filenames arriving automatically, which is the difference between a pile of PDFs and a library you can actually search.