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 days of buying a pricey dedicated scanner are long gone. Today, our high-powered smartphones can do the job faster. Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and ...

This $40 PDF app has OCR Scanning for $40 Turn your old prints into fresh, readable scans, or just convert your files to and from PDF in an instant.

Document scanning is another valuable thing that your smartphone can do. After all, you have at least one camera on the back of your phone. That means it can scan documents. Many folks use their main ...

We list the best scanning software, to make it simple and easy to create a digital archive of your paper documents. Scanning technology has become increasingly available and accessible, meaning that ...

SintraWorks has updated PDF Nomad, a PDF editor for Mac OS X (10.7 and higher), to version 2.0. The upgrade adds scanning, OCR, AppleScript support, automatic page deskewing, bookmarks management and ...

An adequate performer for basic tasks, but competitors offer more features. PDF creation and conversion applications are more common than rainbows in Hawaii. A new version of one of these utilities, ...

Scanned PDFs are a kind of darknet on a web -- at best search engines see an image inside a PDF, but can't parse out the actual text. But now that's changed as Google recently announced that it will ...

It used to be that, if you hoped Google would index a PDF file, you had to create a PDF that was text-based, not image-based; Googlebot couldn’t recognize the content of scanned or image-based ...