What are the best apps for scanning documents?

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What are the best apps for scanning documents?

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Apr 27, 2023

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Best apps for scanning documents	Price	Last Updated
-- CamScanner	$4.99	Oct 16, 2018
-- Evernote Scannable	-	Apr 11, 2021
-- Scanbot	$7.99	Aug 19, 2018
-- ScanTailor	FREE	Oct 19, 2018
-- Genius Scan	-	Jun 25, 2019

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ScanTailor

Cam Scanning

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CamScanner

Top Pro

Scanned documents can be stored in cloud storage

Free CamScanner accounts have access to 200 MB of free storage space. 10 GB storage space is available for full version license (monthly subscription). See More

Top Con

Limited amount of cloud storage

Cloud storage is only upto 200mb. You'll have to buy pro features after you exceed that limit. See More

Raghu Ranganathan's Experience

It's really easy to use, and I've scanned all of my important documents using this. It's very reliable,and has a great interface for a mobile app. I highly endorse this app. It does what it says, and is freemium. See More

Top Pro

Batch scanning

CamScanner allows users to scan multiple documents at the same time. See More

Top Con

Pro features requires subscription

Either monthly or yearly subscriptions are available at either $4.99/month or $49.99/year. See More

Top Pro

Ad-less free version

Top Pro

PDF conversion

CamScanner scans documents directly into multi page PDF format. See More

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Evernote Scannable

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Scanbot

Top Pro

Auto-uploads to numerous cloud services

Cloud integration: iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Evernote, OneDrive, WebDAV, Shoeboxed, etc. See More

Top Pro

One time Upgrade to Pro

You only need to pay once to upgrade to pro to unlock all features. The options are in USD: $4.99 (unlocks some features) Pro $7.99 (unlocks all features), Scanbot VIP $9.99 (unlocks all features + gift 1 Pro license to a friend) See More

Top Pro

Text recognition (OCR) support

Very easily extracts the text of your scans to copy, search, lookup etc. See More

Top Pro

Very fast auto-scanning

Through automatic edge detection scans are taken in a blink of an eye. See More

Top Pro

Best Auto-Detection of Documents

Fastest and most accurate detection of all document kinds See More

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Genius Scan

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ABBYY FineScanner

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7 Options Considered

My Recommendation for CamScanner

My Recommendation for CamScanner

Scanned documents can be stored in cloud storage

Limited amount of cloud storage

Batch scanning

Pro features requires subscription

Ad-less free version

PDF conversion

My Recommendation for Evernote Scannable

My Recommendation for Evernote Scannable

My Recommendation for Scanbot

My Recommendation for Scanbot

Auto-uploads to numerous cloud services

One time Upgrade to Pro

Text recognition (OCR) support

Very fast auto-scanning

Best Auto-Detection of Documents

My Recommendation for ScanTailor

My Recommendation for ScanTailor

My Recommendation for Genius Scan

My Recommendation for Genius Scan

My Recommendation for ABBYY FineScanner

My Recommendation for ABBYY FineScanner

My Recommendation for Cam Scanning

My Recommendation for Cam Scanning

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My Recommendation for QuickScan - PDF Scanner App

My Recommendation for QuickScan - PDF Scanner App

My Recommendation for Pocket Scanner

My Recommendation for Pocket Scanner

My Recommendation for PDF Reader

My Recommendation for PDF Reader

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