How to Make PDF Text Searchable | Even Scanned PDFs Can Be Made Searchable!

Have you ever tried to search for a keyword in a PDF, only to find that no results appear no matter how many times you ...
TechRepublic

How to scan and apply OCR to documents in iOS

A missing feature in iOS is the ability to use Optical Character Recognition to scan documents to make them searchable. The third-party app Scanbot can handle this task with ease. Scanning documents ...
MacStories

Scanner Pro 7 Adds OCR and Workflows

Scanning apps have become a big category on iOS. There are a lot of great options and the quality and diversity of the category creates a healthy competitive atmosphere that means frequent updates and ...

Can you copy and paste from paper documents? I tried OCR on scanned PDFs with PDNob

You have scanned a paper document into a PDF, but you cannot select the text to copy it. It is a bit of a hassle to type it ...
The Gadgeteer

CZUR Lens Pro portable document scanner review – OCR, video capture, and more

CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – I remember having a flatbed scanner back in the day. It was always a pain to scan a large document because it had to be done one page at a time and if the pages were printed on ...
CCM

How to enable Google Drive OCR: PDF, scan, search

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in Google Drive allows users to automatically extract text from PDF files and save them in a Google Docs document. This can help to save time when ...
9to5Mac

Scanner Pro for iPhone and iPad gets redesign, auto OCR, pivot to freemium

The popular Scanner Pro iOS app from Readdle is out with a notable update. It brings a really useful automated OCR feature, a fresh modern design including a new list view and sorting options, as well ...
Lifehacker

10 of the Best Scanner Apps for Android

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Every time you need to upload documents online ...
iClarified

Adobe Releases Free 'Adobe Scan' OCR App for iOS [Download]

Adobe has released a free OCR app for iOS called 'Adobe Scan'. Go from paper to digital fast. The free Adobe Scan app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text ...
androidheadlines.com

Top 9 Best PDF Scanner Android Apps – Updated October 2022

There are quite a few PDF scanner apps available in the Google Play Store. Some are better than others, and here we decided to hand-pick our favorites. In the list below, you’ll find 9 PDF scanner ...
PC Magazine

PDFScanner (for Mac) Review

The software is simple, but it does offer clever settings, including the ability to automate names with drag-able tags. As long as your scanner is compatible with Mac OS X Image Capture, it should ...