If you have a printed document, book or photo that you want to share with everyone, the simplest way is to scan that document, book or image and upload it to the Internet for everyone to see. let’s see. However, if you don’t have a scanner, you won’t be able to do it.
With the tools below, you can take advantage of the camera function on the smartphone you are using (including Android and iOS). ) to turn a product into a portable scanner, helping to scan documents to store or share them more easily.
Office Lens (Free for both Android and iOS and Windows Phone)
Office Lens is an application developed by Microsoft that allows users to turn a smartphone camera into a pocket scanner. Users can take pictures of text content on document boards or invoices… and then process them to get results like when using a real scanner.
The application will allows users to convert captured images of text content into regular JPEG image files Word PowerPoint or even PDF files. If users use Office Lens to take photos of invoices, business cards, menus or notes… Office Lens will automatically crop and adjust the image later to retain the main content on the image in the clearest way. similar to when using a real scanner.
Especially if users use Office Lens to record images of Word application text files on mobile devices (if any), they will use Uses optical character recognition (OCR) to convert images into text content, allowing users to edit content from captured image files. Users can also use this feature to extract numbers phone or contact address when using Office Lens to capture images of business cards…
Office Lens application Supports many different mobile platforms including Android iOS and Windows Phone. Download the free app here or at here (compatible with Android 5.0 and above) download app for iOS here (compatible with iOS 8.0 or later) and version for Windows Phone here (compatible with Windows Phone 8 and above).
CamScanner (Version for Android iOS and Windows Phone)
This is one of the most popular mobile applications for scanning and converting business card documents. … into PDF file format and stored on mobile devices.
CamScanner uses the smartphone camera as a scanner and then provides many features for image processing such as automatic rotation Documents included in the image crop excess borders to retain the document content, making it easier to read and clearer. CamScanner can save documents as PDF files or JPEG image files, convenient for users to share when needed.
In addition, users can also pay to use additional extended functions of CamScanner. This application can store documents after scanning in the cloud for easier sharing or add the function of filtering text content in images to be able to edit content from captured document pages. The fee for the professional version is 4 USD 99/month or USD 40/year.
Users can download CamScanner version for Android here or at here (compatible with Android 2.3 and above) version for iOS at here compatible with iOS 6.0 and above) and Windows Phone version at here (compatible with Windows Phone 8 and above).
Scanbot (Free for both Android and iOS)
This is considered one of the best applications for scanning documents on smartphones. Users just need to point the camera interface on the application towards the document they need to scan and the application will automatically scan and scan the content of the document. The scanned text file will be saved as a JPG image file or PDF file.
The application also provides users with many different filters to help turn the scanned text file into black and white. to make it easier to read or keep the original color intact.
Scanbot also supports continuous multi-page scanning in case you need to scan a book or a section of a book or a multi-page document … this helps you scan multiple pages of text together and save it as a multi-page PDF file on your smartphone instead of having to save it as separate files.
Scanbot also provides offers a professional version for 5 USD which will support additional optical character recognition (OCR) features to convert images into text content or create hand signatures on documents after scanning. …
Download the app version for Android here or at here (compatible with Android 4.1 and above) or iOS version at < strong>here (compatible iOS 9.3 or later).
PhotoScan – Specialized tool for scanning images
PhotoScan is an application Developed by Google, it allows users to turn their smartphone into a photo scanner to turn paper photos into digital photos for easier storage and sharing.
With PhotoScan, you don’t simply use the camera on your smartphone to take pictures, but it will scan the entire image with the camera. During the scanning process, the flash on the smartphone will always be on to evenly illuminate all details of the image. PhotoScan uses intelligent algorithms and image processing techniques developed by Google to eliminate glare that appears on images caused by smartphone flash to produce the most satisfactory photo results. Recorded by smartphone camera. In addition, the application can also detect and remove curls on images, especially at the corners of the original photo.
After scanning and turning physical images into digital images, these Photos can be easily shared or stored on the Google Photos application.
Readers can download the free PhotoScan application here or at here ( for Android 5.0 and above) or iOS version at here (compatible with iOS 9.0 and above).
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