Those two tricky situations aside, the app was very good at recognizing text in my testing, however. My second try was with white text on a black background, which also confused the app. When you do this, the app reads "Looking for a document." On my first try, the app couldn't make out the text on a small magazine, because there were too many columns with very small text. The first thing Adobe Scan does is to show you a camera view, with a message suggesting you point the camera at a document. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test everything we review (Opens in a new window).) Next, as only makes sense for a scanning app, you have to give it privacy permission to use your iPhone camera. At least the type of Adobe account required here is free, however. I always prefer apps that can do at least something without requiring an account setup and sign-in failing that, a simple sign up with Facebook procedure is a second best. After this, you have to sign in to an Adobe account, otherwise you can't do anything with the app. When you first open Adobe Scan, a simple three-page welcome slideshow appears. On iOS it's a reasonably small, 39MB download that runs on iOS 10.0 or later, so the oldest phone it works on is the less-than-four-year-old iPhone 5s. Getting StartedĪdobe Scan is a free iPad and iPhone app, though an in-app purchase raises its ugly head later, as I'll explain. I found Adobe Scan to be generally impressive, though there are alternatives that match or surpass it in some ways.
The app can not only produce a PDF using your smartphone camera, but it can also apply optical-character recognition (OCR) to the scanned image so that you can edit its text. Never fear! That's where Adobe Scan, a newly released mobile scanning app, comes in. Sometimes you have a piece of paper that you need to get into digital form. Getting DOC files requires multiple apps and steps.Requires paid Adobe Document Cloud account for some functions.
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