Have you ever been in a situation that you urgently need to scan an important document, but your scanner isn't working? That indeed is frustrating until and unless you have your own handy scanner app right on your phone.
You don't need to own a scanner nor go from shop-to-shop looking for a scanner. Your own handy smartphone can do the work for you with which you can digitalize your documents in seconds.
In today's time, there is a mobile application for almost everything. So it comes as no surprise that there is a mobile scanning app in the market. Read on to learn about the app called Adobe Scan, and learn how you can scan documents with it.
About Adobe Scan
Adobe Scan is one of the most popular scanner apps available out there. It is a free mobile scanning app by Adobe that turns your device into a fully functioning, powerful, and portable PDF scanner that recognizes texts automatically.
This application is great at capturing documents, like rebate forms, taxation documents, and the occasional business card. Besides, you can scan almost any type of documents including ID cards, Books, Question books, and many more.
The best part is that Adobe Scan is not as complex as other apps, like CamScanner and Scan Pro. It is extremely easy to use and lets you automatically scan and resize documents.
Adobe Scan automatically stores your scanned documents to the Adobe Document Cloud that is accessible from any phone, tablet, or computer.
Features of Adobe Scan
Talking about the features of Adobe Scan, it houses a plethora of absolutely cool and powerful features that make it a stand out option of the mobile scanning apps. To begin with, Adobe Scan has an extremely easy-to-use user interface and it is wicked fast.
Users do not even need to press the "take a photo" button; you have two options to get started, either with the camera or from the gallery. If you choose a camera, you just put your documents in front of the rear camera, and the app will do other needful by itself.
The next feature is that the app works with Adobe Document cloud which is absolutely free to sign up for and provides 2GB of storage to store your scanned documents.
For user's convenience, Adobe Scan also allows you to directly save the scanned PDF files on your device so that you can share them via any third party applications like mail or other messenger apps.
Optical Character Recognition
Additionally, Adobe Scan makes much of its built-in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology that converts the documents into a fully editable copy of your PDF.
With OCR, users can also perform faster scans on bulk, and use it as a book scanner. Moreover, you can also reuse contents after scanning PDF documents all thanks to OCR.
Availability and Pricing
The app is available for both Android and iOS users and can be downloaded for free using the respective Play Store and App Store. Adobe Scan is a free and standalone app.
However, with a subscription to the Adobe Acrobat Pro DC version, you can combine and organize your scans with other documents and form into a single PDF file.
The subscription price is advertised to be $14.99 per month and comes with a week-long trial. With the price paid, you can enjoy all the premium features of Adobe and do even more with PDFs.
However, the free app itself works absolutely fine and does not bother you with the annoying ads. Therefore, I suggest, there is no need to get the paid version until and unless you are using other Adobe products.
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The Bottom Line
If you are looking for a trustworthy mobile application to use as a portable scanner for your office or personal use, then the free version of the Adobe Scan is worth a look.
All in all, even with its limitations as a free service, Adobe Scan is trustworthy and does not gives you the feeling of using a free app.
