iDocument Plus for Android

I have to say, I wanted this to be worth $50. Indexed folders don’t work properly. Every time a change is made, a dupicate is added to iDocument. Better support for network drives is a must. Not a happy camper. I can’t use the app, so I suppose I will wait for an update or something.

Won’t stop crashing. Needed a replacement after Doo shut down. This isn’t it.

iDocument Plus is easy to install and has a simple, almost-intuitive user interface. Although it is probably a good low-cost choice for organizing notes for a college paper or similar home-based project, it failed our miserably for our small business. The initial indexing process is aggressive with memory and CPU usage. Don’t plan on getting any other work done during it. We had about 82,000 short documents to index and iDocument quickly froze our Android 3.06 GHz with 4 GB memory running the latest version of OSX Mavericks. After numerous hard reboots, and two reinstallations, we finally succeeed in getting iDocument to index about 49,000 files, without crashing, after slightly more than 5 hours. However, we have been unable to run even this partial document library with iDocument without it eventually freezing our system. Even when iDocument is idle, it overloads our usually very fast computer’s capacity and badly slows any other applications. When it is indexing, it usually crashes our system. The only good thing about this experience is that even after numerous failures, iDocument has not caused us to lose any data. Our limited success in attempting to use this application at all demonstrated that it is reasonably fast and thorough in its searches. One can open a file directly from the search results, but it is a slow process. As with any document management system, the two key elements are the quality of the document folders and the precision of the search terms. (To that extent iDocument was helpful in reminding us in search results of documents that we should have deleted years ago.) The on-line users manual is helpful for the initial installation, but there are almost no on-line FAQ files that deal with troubleshooting.

It is great to have the ability to import document directly from a scanner. Same problem here with the theme option in the preference; the color picker is missing. Please fix this issue ASAP.

So far seems to do a great job organizing files. Only issue I have is that the Android Store download has a corrupted preference pane dealing with themes. In the website trial version the “themes” preference pane allow a choice of colors. In the Android App store version the preference for themes is there, it's just that the color picker is missing. Other than that, I nice clean app.