About this app

Snapshare digitizes and transmits paper documents in just 3 steps (1. Scan QR-Code, 2. Photograph document, 3. Send document) to the designated location in a target application. This, Snapshare eliminates and automates numerous intermediate steps.

Snapshare can be used without creating a user account. The automatic and secure login to access to the Snapshare Service is established through specific QR codes (Snapshare-ID). Confidentiality is thus guaranteed by end-to-end encryption.

Document or receipt-specific QR codes are provided by the owner of the receiving target application*. For example: If your tax consultant uses ‘Dr. Tax Professional’, you will receive corresponding QR codes from him; if you use ‘Dr. Tax Privat’ or a cantonal tax software/web solution, then you will create the corresponding QR codes within the respective application yourself.

* Snapshare currently works with the tax application 'Obwalden eTax'. Integration with other applications like 'Dr. Tax Privat' and 'Dr. Tax Professional' and tax software of various Swiss cantons is in the works.


The most important functions and benefits at a glance:

Digitizing paper documents
- Digitize paper documents via smartphone camera
- Single or multi-page document scans
- Automatic perspective image rectification
- Image post-processing (rotating pages, cropping, colour filters)
- High image resolution for maximum readability
- Image zoom for quality assessment of digitized documents

Transmitting/sharing documents
- Detecting receipt-specific QR codes via smartphone camera
- Direct sending of receipts from the app
- Sending existing receipts via button in the 'share' menu
- Automatic assignment of documents in the target application

Data security and confidentiality
- Automatic & secure authentication via specific QR codes
- Asymmetric encryption of scanned documents
- End-to-end encryption of the entire communication
- No permanent storage of scanned documents on the smartphone
- No permanent storage of submitted documents in the Snapshare transfer system
- Hosting and operation of Snapshare service in Switzerland

Snapshare is available in the following languages: German, French, Italian, English, Portugese, Spanish, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Turkish.

More information about Snapshare at: http://www.snapshare.ch

App Permissions

Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.