We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Matthew Guay When life gives you paper, your phone can turn it into clear PDF ...

A one-time $27.99 turns your phone into a full-featured document scanner and PDF editor forever—no bulky hardware required.

A document scanner app allows you to scan, edit, and save documents in digital format easily without needing a physical scanner. A few apps offer advanced features like OCR, which helps you copy text ...

Every time you need to upload documents online, you’ll find yourself looking for a good scanner app. For those with Androids, here are some of the best you can find. Some of these apps support optical ...

Scanners of various flavors still exist, of course, but there's a lot less need for the average person to own one. Your recent-ish photographs are all going to be digital, and it's rare that most ...

Want to go completely paperless? Here's how to better manage PDF documents on iPhone and iPad! Photo: Ally Kazmucha/The App Factor PDF handling on the iPhone and iPad has vastly improved over the last ...

Thanks to Adobe's new app, you'll never need to painstakingly scan documents ever again. Called Adobe Scan, the app can snap photos of paper documents and turn them ...

If Microsoft Lens were a coin, I’d likely find it lurking between the couch cushions. It’s one of those apps that I forgot was installed on my device, but I was always glad to see it whenever I needed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TJ McCue is Seattle-based and covers tech & productivity tools. This article is more than 5 years old. Most people think that the ...

Over the last decade, smartphones have evolved in a way that they have replaced several gadgets like point and shoot cameras, music players, and the list keeps growing. Remember the time when you had ...