PDF, or to give it its full title, Portable Document Format, is the de facto standard for exchanging documents.
Add in the almost universal possession of mobile phones, and it was only a matter of time before a bright spark came up with an app.
And one of the best is CamScanner that converts your phone into a PDF scanner with one-tap.
According to the developers, the app has been downloaded onto more than 500 million devices in over 200 countries. And CamScanner sees over 500,000 new registrations every day. That’s quite a massive penetration into the app market by any measure.
The stats, as they say, speak for themselves. You don’t get these kinds of figures if your app sucks. And CamScanner is far from that, helping users scan, collaborate, sync, and store content across mobile phones, tablets and iPads, and computers.
The app gets good reviews from Android and iOS users, earning CamScanner 4.7 and 4.8 out of five on Google Play and the App Store, respectively. Again, this serves to underline just how brilliant this app is at what it does.
Quick scanning
Smart cropping and auto-enhance
Extract text from any image
Share PDF and JPEG files via email and to social media
AirPrint and Fax documents
Advanced tools for editing documents
Add tags for quick searching
Set passcode to protect confidential content
Sync across platforms
The free version of CamScanner is inevitably supported by ads and adds a watermark to your scanned documents.
Plus, you will need to put up with a limit of 30 pages, inviting only ten collaborators per document and only being able to upload to OneDrive/EverNote for a week.
By then, the developers hope you will be hooked enough to upgrade to a subscription to get rid of ads, watermarks, limitations and unlock powerful and valuable premium features.
At $4.99 per month or $49.99 a year, it may work out for you if you are a heavy user. And once you have CamScanner installed, you will doubtless find lots of different ways to use it.
If you like to keep notes, records, expenses, and invoices, CamScanner will save you a heap of time and trouble than shuffling pieces of paper around.
For example, you can scan any paper document, including:
Receipts
Invoices
Business cards
Certificates
Notes
Whiteboard discussions
And with a subscription, you can scan images and extract the text to edit, share, or search later.
There’s a limited free version
Easy to use
Fast
Good doc editing tools and sharing capabilities
The subscription packages add lots more functionality
Multi-language support
Pushes the subscription packages hard
CamScanner is downloadable from Google Play and Apple’s App Store.
Android users will find the app’s requirements vary by device. Meanwhile, iOS users 218.7 MB of free storage and 12.0 or later.
You can also use CamScanner directly from the camscanner.com website.
The paid-for app works with Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, and Box.com.
