Taking photos of documents with your phone is an incredibly convenient thing to do. But you know what would be better? Being able to convert those photos into PDFs, recognise the letters on the page, ...

Adobe Scan (for Android and iOS) is great at capturing the types of documents life throws at you every once in a while—receipts, tax documents, and the occasional business card. It’s free and simple ...

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PDFs are the universal language for documents and Adobe is working to modernize the standard format with new tools. On Monday, October 1, Adobe launched a new Adobe Acrobat DC, opening up more ...

There are some tasks that will never be suitable for a smartphone—serious video editing and serious spreadsheeting, for example—but there’s plenty that you can do on these pocket devices, and that ...

Adobe Scan is one of the latest mobile applications that can be used by anyone in need of creating a scanned copy of a physical document, form, image, business card or whiteboard. All you need is a ...

A document scanner app allows you to scan, edit, and save documents in digital format easily without needing a physical scanner. A few apps offer advanced features like OCR, which helps you copy text ...

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Mobile scanners are among the most useful smartphone apps. Whether it’s a receipt, business card or document, you can scan it and have a copy to save digitally and, in many cases, edit. These apps are ...

If you've scanned a document with your scanner or phone and have the image as a JPG file, it's often useful to convert that image to a PDF. Using Adobe Acrobat, you can even automatically process text ...