Best free app for scanning PDFs
CamScanner is a Chinese app that allows users to use their iOS or Android phone cameras as a document scanner. You can then share the document in either PDF or JPEG formats for official purposes. Similar apps are Adobe Scanner, NoteBloc, Microsoft Office Lens, and Genius Scanner.
CamScanner works on a freemium model. It has a free version with ads and a premium version that provides additional features without ads. The app allows you to edit the positioning of the document to align with your screen. Its crop tool also allows you to cut out the background. Additional features of the app include watermarking, password protection, and file merging.
A smartphone is capable of various operations. Before now, you would need a device for specific purposes you can’t carry out on your phone. You would need a camera to take pictures, a calculator to make calculations, an alarm clock for alarm and so on.
Today, a smartphone offers all of that functionality at your fingertips. The CamScanner mobile app adds to your device's functionality by mimicking a scanning machine. Now, you don't have to buy a scanner or look for one before scanning your documents and pictures.
CamScanner is useful when you need to send or submit e-copies of documents. If you need copies of a document and it’s not with you, you can have someone scan the document with the CamScanner app and send it to you for printing. The premium version allows for advanced editing like annotations on your scanned documents. You can watermark documents and protect private docs with a password.
CamScanner allows you to digitize documents quickly. It’s suitable for scanning paper documents, notes, certificates, photographs and, whiteboard discussion. CamScanner allows you to optimize the quality of your scans thanks to an auto-enhancing feature. The mobile application also allows cropping, readjusting, and enhancing the image to improve the quality of scanned documents.
CamScanner allows you to send scanned documents as JPEG/PDF files through various channels. It supports various social media platforms like Facebook and permits link sharing via email. The mobile scanning app also allows users to print documents quickly. You can AirPrint from any supported printer near you. It also supports faxing to 30 countries across the globe.
The premium version of CamScanner has an optical character recognition (OCR) feature that allows you to extract texts from images. In essence, if you don’t want to type out a document, simply copy the text from an image of the document with CamScanner. The OCR supports 16 languages, including English, Japanese and Chinese.
CamScanner’s user interface and feedback embrace minimalism that makes it simple enough to use. On the left side of the home screen are the tags for sorting your scans. You can edit these tags based on the type of documents you scan. The tags ensure proper document organization and make it straightforward to find previously scanned documents.
At the bottom of your screen, there is a button for an upgrade to the premium version, which is devoid of ads and has additional features. The bottom of the user interface houses the camera button that takes a picture of the document you want to scan. Other features at the bottom of the home screen are actions such as share, change tags, delete, merge, and add password protection.
There are three dots at the top right side of the home screen. Clicking the dots gives you a drop-down that covers most of the screen. The drop-down menu offers access to the app settings, view, cloud space, sort, sync, as well as your profile and display picture.
CamScanner offers a straightforward user experience. The only tricky part is getting familiar with what some buttons do. The buttons have icons that are suggestive enough. However, it’s still easy to miss what a button is meant to do.
CamScanner is a lifesaver whenever you need to send or upload your documents. It has a properly structured user interface that makes it easy for old and new users alike to navigate.
The mobile scanning app is a powerful freemium tool. The free version watermarks documents but provides virtually all you need, plus a few pop-up ads. Conversely, the premium version is devoid of pop-up ads and has additional doc editing features.
User reviews about CamScanner
by Anonymous
It is a must try if you file digitally.
Simply: it is a great app, that I use daily. Whether to file a invoice which I do not will need in the future or do duplicate old photos the number of possibilities are infinite.
Advatages: comes with standard settings that enable to either quickly digitally file docuemnts or make a copy using manual settings to get optimal results from bad quality originals.
Pros:
speed
outstanding results
Cons:
deleting individual pages More
by Anonymous
Very useful, but not a replacement to scanner.
i have this installed, it has feature of cropping, and has the capability to store images by categories. But yet it is just an image clicked from camera. I use this everyday to store my white board notes. But it is not a replacement to scanner. Also other good feature is you can sync through cloud, and so easy to share. More
by Anonymous
One of the better scannering programs.
Downloaded the cam scanner program and found it to do all that I expected, in the free version. As I have not downloaded the paid version I can't vouch for it. I use this program on my Samsung Galaxy S3 works brilliant.My only complaint is that it does not convert files with ocr for Android version yet. Otherwise, this is one of the better programs for scanning; it links up with cloud storage as well.Give it a try! More