I've had fun scanning old photos with my scanner (Epson Perfection 2400). I'd like to now scan some primarily text-based documents (like old financial records and recipes). Something like PDF would be ...

One of my favorite kinds of apps is simple utilities that solve a common problem and are straightforward to use. That’s exactly what Greg Pierce has created with Simple Scan, a scanning app for the ...

Scanning a letter document into a PDF digitizes your business's important documents in a way that enables text searches. The software technology that makes such searches possible is called optical ...

NAPS2 is a wonderful utility for users who want more manual control over their document scanning tasks. Windows has built-in support for scanning documents. In fact, it not only supports scanning but ...

One key area of frustration for newcomers to the Linux OS is using document scanners. Most hardware makers do not provide Linux drivers on discs that accompany their scanner models. So Linux users ...

There are quite a few PDF scanner apps available in the Google Play Store. Some are better than others, and here we decided to hand-pick our favorites. In the list below, you’ll find 9 PDF scanner ...

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in Google Drive allows users to automatically extract text from PDF files and save them in a Google Docs document. This can help to save time when ...

The software drivers needed to operate a wide variety of document scanning devices are preinstalled on distributions of Ubuntu Linux. In additon, Ubuntu includes a basic scanning application that lets ...

The capture options are Multi-Page, Flash, and Automatic. How to scan and apply OCR to documents in iOS Your email has been sent Scanning documents in iOS has been around for a while, but it has taken ...