How to Send Scans to your Computer

Quite often you may want to send the documents you've scanned with Genius Scan for iPhone to your computer. There are several ways of doing that.

• Send the file to yourself by email. Hit the export button and choose Email as an option. Then just open that email you just receive and download the attached scan. It works, but it's a bit tedious.
• Activate the Wifi-Sharing in Genius Scan and open your browser at the specified address on your computer; there you can see all your documents and choose the one you like.

Wifi Sharing

• But the simplest way is probably Dropbox. Just send the file using the Dropbox version and the scan will magically appear on your computer within seconds. Dropbox is available in Genius Scan+ (you can also unlock Genius Scan+ as an in-app purchase in Genius Scan).

Choose Dropbox to send a file
to your computer.

Genius Scan for the Tax Season

Genius Scan allows you to scan a large variety of documents. During tax season, it becomes especially handy:

• You need to keep a copy of your tax forms for future reference. Genius Scan allows you to do that very quickly. You can scan several pages in a row and add them to a PDF document. You can then email the document to yourself. With Genius Scan+, you can choose to export the document to a cloud service for backup (Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs are supported).
• Send documents to your accountants. For instance, you can email him the copies of your invoices. You can also email any expense that could be itemized.
• Make photocopies of documents. With Genius Scan+, you can directly take a photo of a document and print it using AirPrint. This is much faster than finding a photocopier!

Happy Tax Season!

Genius Scan, Google Docs and 2-step verification

Users have encountered issues uploading documents to Google Docs from Genius Scan.


Some of you might have enabled the 2-step verification on their Google Account. This adds a layer of security to your account but that has some constraints. All the applications which need to access your Google account (outside of a browser) need an application-specific password.


The Google Docs export feature in Genius Scan is not an exception. If you enabled 2-step verification for your Google Account, you need to create a specific password for Genius Scan.

Great Reviews All Around the World!

Genius Scan is downloaded and receives great reviews throughout the world. It is currently translated in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. Our plans are to localize it to even more countries in the near future.

Genius Scan 2.3.2 Makes Expense Reports Easier

As always we strive to make it easier for our users to achieve theirs tasks. One of the most common task people use Genius Scan for is the preparation of expense reports.  Genius Scan 2.3.2 will help you in a few ways:

• First, we partnered with Expensify to integrate with their new ScanAnywhere API. Expensify is the best expense report service around and some of our users were already using it with Genius Scan but had to fallback to work around using the email feature. Expensify is only available in Genius Scan+ (only $2.99)
• Genius Scan 2.3.2 allows you to setup default email addresses. This is convenient when you always send your scans to the same address. Typically, yours or your company's accounting department. You can always add yourself in copy for later reference. This feature is available in both Genius Scan and Genius Scan+ and you will find it in the Settings.

Settings for the default email addresses

The email feature now uses these defaults.

Happy receipt scanning!

Genius Scan 2.3.1 released!

Genius Scan 2.3.1 is now available on the Apple App Store for both Genius Scan and Genius Scan+. This is a minor update that fixes some annoyances that users reported. Thanks for everyone who helped us address these:

• By default, the first letter of the document titles is capitalized when you edit it. 
• Sometimes the documents would stop appearing in the document list under low memory conditions and would require a restart of the app. This is now fixed.
• We fixed a memory leak that would crash the app after scanning and uploading multiple scans in a row
• We made the Evernote and Dropbox error message easier to understand.
• Documents don't show up as Untitled anymore when exported to iBooks.

Genius Scan and Genius Scan+ ($2.99) are available on the Apple App Store. Genius Scan+ contains all the features of Genius Scan and also allows exporting to AirPrint, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs. Please let us know in the comments, on Twitter @thegrizzlylabs or by email at support@thegrizzlylabs.com if you have any questions, comments, concerns or feedback!

How to use AirPrint with any Printer

In Genius Scan+ v2.3 we introduced AirPrint support.

AirPrint is an Apple technology which allows you to print wirelessly. To access AirPrint in Genius Scan, you just need to use the export menu and choose the Print option.

AirPrint is available in the export menu

You can then choose a printer and some printing options and here is your homemade photocopy:

AirPrint UI

Everyone doesn't have an AirPrint-compatible printer though. But this isn't a blocker issue. The trick is to use your Wifi-enabled computer as an bridge to your printer by installing a software similar to AirPrint Activator. You will then be able to see any printer recognized by your computer as an AirPrint printer.

None of these printers are AirPrint compatible to begin
with. However, by installing AirPrint activator on your
 computer, this makes them magically compatible.

AirPrint is supported in Genius Scan+ ($2.99). You can also give a try at the free Genius Scan and update to Genius Scan+ as an in-app purchase.