I tested the top mobile scanning apps to help you turn documents into PDFs, digitize images, and translate text on the go.

Sid Colquitt wrote that he had a paper print-out of a document that he would like to convert to a Microsoft Word file. Yes, this can be done with a scanner and an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows editing text in a graphic image or scanned document. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize an office ...

I've had fun scanning old photos with my scanner (Epson Perfection 2400). I'd like to now scan some primarily text-based documents (like old financial records and recipes). Something like PDF would be ...

Starting with the first version of Fujitsu's ScanSnap scanner that I reviewed—the ScanSnap fi-5110EOX, in 2004—Fujitsu has done a great job of turning out one impressive model after another, ...

People who’ve worked with a scanner and an optical character recognition (OCR) program know how difficult it can be for computers to accurately recognize the printed word. That problem is compounded ...