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Read and work through scanned documents.

Scan a paper document with your phone camera, or open a scanned PDF or a Word file. Recognise its text on your own device in English, Hindi, Marathi or Gujarati, then highlight, search and pull passages onto a canvas, each one linked back to its page.

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Capabilities

What you can do with Doc Canvas.

Scan, then OCR on your device

Scan paper with the camera or open a scanned PDF: pages get selectable, searchable text in English, Hindi, Marathi or Gujarati. Recognition runs on your device, not on an OCR server.

Highlight, comment, tag

Mark passages, cut out an area of a page, add comments and tags, and press ⌘K or Ctrl K to search every document in the workspace.

Fold pages together

Pinch, or drag with the Collapse tool, to fold away the pages in between so page 2 and page 9 sit side by side.

Works offline

Install Xegality as an app on desktop, Android, iPhone or iPad. Documents you have opened keep working, and edits sync when you are back online.

Work on it together

Attach a workspace to a matter to share it: see who has it open, reply on a highlight and watch changes arrive live.

New version, same notes

Replace a document with its next version. Highlights and excerpts follow the text to their new pages, and anything not found is flagged.

Camera scanning

Paper in, a clean searchable PDF out.

Point your phone at a document. Doc Canvas finds the page edges, captures the page by itself when it holds still, straightens it and evens out shadows. Check each page, fix a corner or retake one, and the pages become one PDF in your workspace with their text recognised on your device, ready to highlight, search and excerpt.

Scan · Rent agreement
  • Page 1Edges found · AutoCaptured
  • Page 2Corners adjusted · Black & whiteCaptured
  • Page 3Hold still…Scanning
  • Rent agreement.pdfText recognised on this devicePDF
Scanned documents

Make a scanned bundle readable and searchable.

When pages have no text layer, Doc Canvas offers to recognise them. Pick the languages and the text is read page by page on your device. Recognised pages can then be selected, highlighted and searched like any other PDF, and colleagues get the text without recognising it again.

Text recognition · Sale deed.pdf
  • Page 1Hindi and EnglishDone
  • Page 2Hindi and EnglishDone
  • Page 3Reading the page…Running
  • Page 4WaitingQueued
Canvas

Pull the facts out, keep the source one tap away.

Drag a quote or a cut-out of a page onto an infinite canvas, arrange excerpts next to your notes and draw links between them. Tap a link and the document opens at the exact spot it came from, or open two documents side by side to compare them.

Canvas · Chronology
  • Possession clauseSale deed · p. 4Excerpt
  • Payment receiptCut from Receipts.pdf · p. 2Area
  • Dates don't matchNote · linked to 2 excerptsNote
How it works

How Doc Canvas works.

  1. 1.

    Add your documents

    Create a workspace and add PDFs or Word files, or scan paper with your camera. For scanned pages, choose the languages and recognise the text.

  2. 2.

    Read and mark up

    Highlight, comment, tag and write with a pen. Fold pages together or use Focus view to see only what you marked.

  3. 3.

    Build the canvas

    Pull excerpts onto the canvas, link them to your notes, share the workspace on a matter and export your notes when you are done.

Works with

  • PDF
  • Word (.docx)
  • Scanned PDFs
  • Phone camera
  • Touch and stylus

Doc Canvas, explained.

Still curious? Talk to our team.

Can Doc Canvas read scanned PDFs?
Yes. Pages without a text layer can be recognised (OCR) in English, Hindi, Marathi or Gujarati. The recognised text is saved with the workspace, so your other devices and your colleagues can select and search it without running OCR again.
Can I scan a paper document with my phone camera?
Yes. Tap Scan in Doc Canvas and point the camera at the page. The edges are found and the page is captured when it holds still, or you can use the shutter. Scan as many pages as you need, adjust the corners, rotate or retake a page and pick a filter. The pages become one PDF in your workspace and its text is recognised on your device, so you can search, highlight and excerpt it like any other document.
Is my document sent to a server for OCR?
No. Recognition runs in your browser on your own device. The OCR engine and language data are downloaded once and kept for offline use. The workspace itself, including its files and recognised text, syncs to your Xegality account so you can open it on your other devices.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Install Xegality as an app on desktop, Android, iPhone or iPad. Documents you have opened once stay on the device, search works on their text, and your edits are saved locally and sync when you are back online.
Can I open Word files?
Yes. A .docx file is turned into readable pages in your browser so you can highlight and excerpt it like a PDF. The text and structure are kept, but page breaks can differ from Word's.
What happens when I get a new version of a document?
Replace it. Doc Canvas matches pages by their text, moves your highlights and excerpts to where the text now is, and tags anything it cannot find with 'Check after update'. You see the plan before anything changes, and one undo reverses it.
Who can use Doc Canvas?
Lawyers and law firm members, in the Xegality workspace. Workspaces attached to a matter are shared with the people working on it. Students can use Doc Canvas when it is turned on for their account.

Works well with.

Doc Canvas shares its work with the rest of Xegality.

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