Never again bother buying a scanner. Thanks to the quality of our smartphones and powerful camera, scan a photo or document is now as easy as taking a picture.
Here we present the favorite apps by CNET to turn your phone into a powerful scanner .
The best app for iOS: Evernote Scannable
Evernote, the popular note-taking application, has built a fantastic and free app called Scannable. It is extremely helpful to scan receipts, business cards and other documents.
That’s because the app uses the technology of optical character recognition (OCR, by its acronym in English) that can detect letters and numbers anything you scan so you can search for words or phrases within a scanned digital document. The app OCR function works automatically, analyzing documents by words and characters. Also use this feature to display specific information on a card, for example emails or phone numbers, so you can save it to your contacts. It is one of the best solutions we have found for scanning business cards.
What makes Scannable a brilliant app is that it is super easy to use. All you need to do It is open the app and point the camera at what you want to scan. The application does the rest by finding work in the field of view of the camera of a sheet of paper, making focusing automatically and taking a photo. Spend to another piece of paper if you have a multipage document and Scannable the will combine, leaving remove scanned pages you do not want or need.
Then quickly edit the image to enhance the contrast and shine and to be as clear and readable as possible. If you rather have not automatically scan anything in the field of view of the camera, there is a manual mode also captures.
You can configure the application to automatically save any scan directly to your Evernote account manually or export them to your account in iCloud or the roll of film. You can also choose to share scanned documents in a message, email or other applications on your phone. The biggest disadvantage of Scannable is not actually maintains a list of previously scanned documents. You’ll have to save or discard a scan once you’ve captured in order to save or share a new
The best app for Android. CamScanner
To scan documents with your Android phone it is best CamScanner. This free app not only does the basics very well, but does much more.
This app uses your phone’s camera to scan documents, business cards, receipts and even words and scribbles on a blackboard. When you finish making a scan , CamScanner analyzes the image content to organize any type of document automatically. That means all your cards remain in a special folder, while documents or receipts will go in another. As an additional feature, the app also lets you create scans of photos you’ve taken before. The most important thing is that the scan quality is spectacular, but much of it will depend on the quality of your camera phone.
Once you have captured an image, there are plenty of ways to edit, including adjusting the color, contrast or brightness, or crop the image. You can also add watermarks and annotations as well as labels so you can look further scans. They also come incorporated some collaboration tools where you can invite others to make changes to your scanned documents. The list of features below, including links to popular search and storage services in the cloud as Dropbox or Google Drive.
As scannable, CamScanner has OCR, but you will need download a plug -in apart for use. With OCR, you can search for documents by keyword or phrase, which works quite well. You can also use OCR to export and edit text within your scanned documents, but for that you must upgrade to the full version of paid app that costs US $ 4.99.
You’ll have to create an account to use the app, but this allows you to upload your scans automatically when CamScanner website, which makes it very easy then download them to your computer. CamScanner is also available for Windows Phone and iOS.
Honorable mention
Microsoft Office Lens (Android, iOS and Windows)
This application is very simple and allows you to scan documents, blackboards and even photos to then import your Microsoft account. You can also save your scanned documents as PDFs or add them to OneNote or onedrive. If much you use those services, Office Lens is a great choice for you.
Scanbot (Android and iOS)
One of my favorite apps to scan , Scanbot, has a great design that is also very easy to use. The app automatically scans documents as soon as you point the camera on a piece of paper, which is very convenient. Then you can cut the scanned document and choose the final version of four options with different glosses, effects and contrasts.
The free app makes the basic scan, but if you pay 99 cents per month, or US $ 4.90 in one payment, you can upgrade to the professional version that offers extras such as OCR, automatic labeling and themes. You can also use the free Pro version but with ads.
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