With Microsoft Lens' demise scheduled for later this year, I went in search of a new PDF scanner app and found PDFgear Scan.

Adobe Acrobat isn’t the only PDF editor around, and it’s certainly not the cheapest. If you want a low-cost alternative that ...

Macworld Trying to fix a typo in a PDF or sign a document, only to be hit with an Adobe subscription prompt, is just a bummer. The good news is you don’t need to keep throwing money at Acrobat to get ...

The note app will automatically scan the image and you can save it as a PDF. Once it's saved, it can be email or shared via a text message.

Some services or programs can scan your document, use OCR to convert the scanned image to readable text, and save the result as a PDF. However, these services and programs often cost money.

PDF-to-Word is in closed beta right now, but use the beta invite code lifehackers and a valid email to get in. Our readers get 2,000 invites, so act sooner rather than later if you're intrigued.

Got a bunch of scanned documents in PDF format but lack for good text-converting OCR software? Google is now indexing their text conversions of PDFs, which means anyone with access to open web ...

As Microsoft explains, you can open a scanned PDF in Word easily on versions after Word 2010. First, use your scanner and save the document as a PDF in a location you'll be able to find easily.

I quickly scanned about 150 pages of pencil notes using a Xerox printer. Although I chose the darkest scanning setting, the text on the emailed pdf files is still too light.

Apple’s Camera app also detects text, but instead of scanning a document and saving it as a file, it uses OCR (optical character recognition) to copy the text or let you do things like open the ...

Mobile scanning apps turn paper forms and documents into clear PDF files. After testing 21 apps, we found that Adobe Scan is the best at the job.

For example, if you want a PDF editor that can use OCR (optical character recognition) to read the text on a page you have scanned, and allow you to edit it, we have an option that can allow you ...