We are removing support for Stack: PDF Scanner by Google

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Post by zaxcellent » Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 5:00 AM UTC

We are removing support for Stack: PDF Scanner by Google
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Re: We are removing support for Stack: PDF Scanner by Google

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Post by dallbee » Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 5:18 AM UTC

This was one of my favorite Google products. It worked exactly as advertised, no frills. Since its release, I haven't once needed to pull out my old Brother document scanner.

The maintenance burden for Stack cannot have been significant, and yet I guess I am unsurprised to see Google add another good app to their graveyard.

What do others use for this purpose?

Re: We are removing support for Stack: PDF Scanner by Google

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Post by solardev » Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 7:01 AM UTC

dallbee wrote: post #2

This was one of my favorite Google products. It worked exactly as advertised, no frills. Since its release, I haven't once needed to pull out my old Brother document scanner. The maintenance burden for Stack cannot have been significant, and yet I guess I am unsurprised to see Google add another good app to their graveyard. What do others use for this purpose?

GeniusScan is great: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thegrizzly...

Microsoft has a similar app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....

As the post said, Google Drive also has this built in, but it's not very good IMO. Adobe and others also have their own.

I like Genius the most, personally, but there's really a bunch of them on the app store.

Re: We are removing support for Stack: PDF Scanner by Google

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Post by themacguffinman » Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 2:24 PM UTC

It's advertised as a scanner but for me Stack was essentially a tag/label system on top of Google Drive, something I think is still sorely needed on Google Drive. Having the same document appear in multiple "stacks" (eg "ID" + "Immigration", "Medical" + "Insurance" + "Bills") regardless of their actual folder was a good organizational tool.

Google Drive already had a fairly capable scanner.

The strange thing is that the business/education editions of Google Drive support labels mostly for compliance reasons (integrates with data retention policies), but it's not available for personal Google accounts.