Best Scanning App for Android

Turn your phone into scanner

Don’t worry about a scanner again. Thanks to stunning and perfect lenses cameras on today’s smartphones and behind-the-scenes technology, scanning a photo or document with great quality are as easy as open an app and taking a picture.

Here is a best Android app to turn your phone into a scanner.

CamScanner

For scanning photos or documents with your smartphone, it's very difficult to beat CamScanner app. This free of cost application covers almost all the necessary, plus much more.

The application uses your mobile camera to scan receipts, printed documents, business cards, photos and even doodles and words on a whiteboard. When you complete a scan, CamScanner automatically analyzes the data of the image to organize by type. It means all of your scanned data are saved in one place, while scanned docs go in another folder. As a bonus, the application also allows you scan photos you've taken previously. Most importantly, the quality of scan is stellar.

Once you have taken an image, there are dozens of methods to edit it by adjusting the contrast, color or brightness. You can also add annotations and watermarks too, plus add tags to search your scans later. There are also many built-in tools, where you can share with other people to make changes to your scans. The long list of functions goes on, including connections and search to famous cloud storage services such as Google Drive or Dropbox.

CamScanner has OCR, but you need to install a plugin to use CamScanner. OCR let you search documents by phrases or keywords, which works perfectly. With OCR you can edit text from your scanned documents, but to do this you need to upgrade to full version of the application, which is $4.99.

You just need to make an account to use this application, but this allows you upload your scanned documents automatically to your account on CamScanner, which makes very easy to retrieve them on your computer.