Scanning apps have become a big category on iOS. There are a lot of great options and the quality and diversity of the category creates a healthy competitive atmosphere that means frequent updates and ...

In the relentless quest for a truly paperless workspace, our smartphones have become the new file cabinets. The mobile scanning application is now a critical piece of software, tasked with turning ...

Up until today, my page scanner of choice has been Scanner Pro from Readdle, a universal app which uses the iPhone/iPad camera to snap pictures of your documents and send them off to any and every ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows editing text in a graphic image or scanned document. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize an office ...

Gboard for Android is beginning to roll out a rather nifty “Scan Text” optical character recognition (OCR) tool. Scan Text appears in the grid of Gboard capabilities and can be dragged to the toolbar ...

The popular Scanner Pro iOS app from Readdle is out with a notable update. It brings a really useful automated OCR feature, a fresh modern design including a new list view and sorting options, as well ...

Scanning receipts while you travel, notes on a whiteboard, or sketches on an envelope can be easy. The best apps for the job take a snapshot, can do text recognition, save your scan to the cloud for ...

The space required to store paper documents can be a problem. Digitizing your documents renders them exquisitely portable–you can store an entire library on your e-book reader with ease. And because ...

For nearly a decade, Bill focused on printer and scanner technology and reviews for PCMag, and wrote about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. He authored or co-authored ...