First off, I want to thank everyone in r/ScanSnap for their continued support and feedback to make ShabuBox the go-to document management application for Mac. here is what is out in 2.4:
Scan without touching the mouse, and shrink what you keep.
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Watch scanner — press the scan button on the scanner itself, or just drop paper in the feeder, and ShabuBox starts the scan for you. No need to switch back to the app first.
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Reduce Resolution — shrink scanned PDFs in place, one document or in bulk with a cancel button. Size is measured before and after so you can see what you saved, and the pass only ever shrinks — never enlarges — a page. It's permanent — the library file is the only copy — so ShabuBox asks first.
A split view built for skimming.
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Split view — your document list sits beside a full-height live preview, so you can page through a stack of scans without opening each one. Arrow keys move the cursor and the preview follows.
Pages land right-side up, edges land clean.
FIX
Smarter auto-rotation — orientation is now decided by the axis of the text itself first, with sparse pages that used to get flipped wrong now recovered correctly.
FIX
Edge-shadow trim — the thin tapered shadow that sheet-fed scanners leave along one edge is shaved off, instead of riding along as a dark sliver on every page.
When the scanner jams, ShabuBox helps you get back to scanning.
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Jam recovery — a stuck feed is detected and surfaced with a Reset Scanner action, instead of a scan that silently stalls.
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ScanSnap conflict detection — ShabuBox notices when ScanSnap Home is holding the scanner and walks you through the fix, including a Quit for me button and the Apple Events permission prompt it needs.
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Save Diagnostic Bundle — one action packages the logs a scanner problem needs, ready to attach to a support email.
Find Anything gets sharper, and Finder tags come along for the ride.
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Find Anything filter mode — the ⌘K palette can now run as a natural-language filter, with a See All Results view that lands in the Searches sidebar and a plain-English explanation of why each match qualified.
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Finder tags import — every way a file can enter your library — drag-in or watched folder — now carries its Finder tags with it, instead of only some of them.
iCloud sync, and truer color underneath.
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iCloud sync — opt in with Sync with iCloud under Settings → General (Library & Storage) to keep your library current across Macs, and opt back out just as cleanly; ShabuBox always shows you the honest state of what has and hasn't synced.
FIX
Color fidelity — the capture mode you scanned with now travels with the page through processing, and grayscale or line-art originals are kept to a single color channel instead of being upsampled to color.
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Byte-identical rescan dedupe — rescanning the same page twice is recognized and skipped instead of adding a duplicate.
Anonymous usage statistics — on by default, off with one switch.
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Anonymous usage statistics — ShabuBox now sends anonymous counts of which screens and features get used and how often, along with your app version, macOS version, Mac model, language and region, so development effort goes where it actually helps. Everything is tied to a random install ID that is hashed before it leaves your Mac. It goes to our own service and to no third party.
NOTE
What it never contains — your documents, file names, folder paths, note text, search queries, tag or entity names, addresses, chat messages, or anything else you typed. No IP addresses are stored and no location is collected. The app can only emit events from a fixed, published list, and every value on them is a preset code, a true/false flag, or a count rounded into a range — so there is no code path that could carry your text.
NOTE
Turning it off — Settings → General → Privacy → Share anonymous usage statistics. Collection stops immediately and anything queued but unsent is discarded. Full detail in the privacy policy.
Faster underneath, and a handful of fixes worth mentioning.
FIX
Faster everywhere — PDF pages now stream instead of loading whole. Scanning itself moved off the main thread so the app stays responsive while it works.
FIX
Renaming, collections, and notes — renames apply correctly, collections survive a reindex, and notes keep their identity across edits instead of occasionally detaching.
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Refile and licensing hardening — drag-to-refile is more reliable, and the license and certificate-revocation checks behind updates were hardened.
Source: r/ShabuBox · by /u/awizemann