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 ...

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 ...

Prizmo is a fully-featured scanner app for iOS and Mac that lets you capture documents and receipts, turning them into professional PDFs that you can share, archive, annotate, fill out as forms, or ...

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 ...

A missing feature in iOS is the ability to use Optical Character Recognition to scan documents to make them searchable. The third-party app Scanbot can handle this task with ease. Scanning documents ...

Your old webcam can replace an expensive document scanner—here's how.

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 ...

Document scanning software allows you to draw information from documents in all forms in the easiest way possible without sacrificing accuracy. You can then use scanned data anywhere you want with no ...

Optical character recognition (OCR) scanners read handwritten, typed, or printed text from paper and translate the data into a format that can be manipulated by computers. Optical character ...