Are you in an area where scanners are scarce, where you walk distances before you find a scanner to scan your hard copy documents into a soft copy? You should not worry about this situation and scarcity anymore because the advancement in technology has produced quite many tools that you can use as a substitute for physical scanning machines. Today again in this tutorial that will be detailed but precise and to the point, we shall talk about a number of special scanning applications that I recommend below.
Among these apps, we have Android OCR that’s capable of converting scanned text images into real texts specifically in a word document that can be printed or saved like any other word document or file. There are many tools in this category of Android OCR that we are going to talk about today and you will be able to choose your best according to your preferences.
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CamScanner (Phone PDF Creator)
Key features: Image to Text OCR Text Extract Watermark
Available on play store
This application has been listed among the best apps of 2013 TIME Magazine. In addition to the OCR job of extracting texts from images, this app allows you to make your custom watermarks to the data. The basic version of this application is available for free, whereas the premium version can obtain by purchasing or by referral.
This application turns your phone into a portable scanner. Archive all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions anywhere and anytime. It also performs smart Image cropping and an Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned images are perfectly clear and recognizable.
Google Keep
Key features: Create notes and lists Color notes, available on play store
This is a Google app that can record under a Google account. With this Android app, you can set reminders and complete tasks. In addition to this, you can add photos and drawings and search notes by automatically created topics. Once you have this note, you can sync automatically to your phone, tablet, watch, and laptop via the Google Keep website or Chrome app. With Google Keep, you can grab the image with your Android Camera and select “Grab image text” from the app image menu on Google Keep to text.
Google Goggles
Key features: From Google Search Engine Guess an object from Image Available on play store
This is a Google search engine that provided an application that uses the methods of OCR on every level during its performance. The app can provide information about an object just by seeing it through your Smartphone camera and has a language change that converts all the scanned texts into another language.
OneNote
This one is a Microsoft application and a product that comes preloaded on Microsoft devices. You can save your entire document to a personalized cloud account using this awesome tool. The beauty of this cloud storage, you can access any of your Microsoft devices anytime from the cloud.
Office Lens
Office lens is another product of Microsoft. This is an added advantage in using this tool since Microsoft makes sure that OCR Android app is always ensured which makes it a certified application working perfectly for you.
Far from OCR services embedded inside this application, this app also offers a unique inbuilt feature, known as Whiteboard mode used for trimming and as well as cleaning up glares and shadows
PDF Scanner
This is another OCR application that is capable of supporting up to 50 different languages from various parts of the world and works fluently with almost all of these languages. It’s an eye-catching application that also runs on Android just like those described earlier on. This application also works the other way around, to convert a PDF into a jpeg file.
Text Fairy
This is also another fantastic OCR application that will ease your life. It provides the option of converting your hard copy text into a digital file, by extracting the text.
You can as well copy this text to your Smartphone clipboard instantly for use in any other external third-party like messaging or email apps using Text Fairy. The best part of using this application is that it can recognize a range of 50 different languages. It contains Ads and also provides you with the option of converting the extracted data directly into a text or a PDF file.
Genius Scan Free iOS and Android
Genius Scan has no limits to the number of documents you can scan and produces full-resolution documents without any watermark. Genius Scan smart algorithms automatically detect your document, apply the perspective correction and enhance the colors. It helps users digitize millions of documents on the go every day. Discover how it will help you too!
- Perspective correction – Genius Scan corrects any perspective distortion in your photos. You can actually tilt your phone to avoid shadows on your documents!
- Batch mode – Quickly scan dozens of pages in a row. Import tons of images at once from your photos library.
- PDF documents – Create multi-page PDF documents by gathering multiple scans.
- Enhance and edit – Genius Scan automatically enhances your scans but you can always edit it.
Adobe Scan iOS and Android
You no longer need to keep piles of paper on your desk or stuff your wallet with receipts. The free Adobe Scan app works on your mobile device, scans documents into PDFs, and automatically recognizes text.
- Scan anything in a snap, easily capture forms, notes, and multi-page reports. Go beyond scanning documents to scanning receipts, business cards even whiteboard discussions. Powered by Adobe Sensei, Adobe Scan automatically detects borders, removes shadows, and converts printed text to digital in seconds.
- Harness more PDF power – Open the scanned PDF in Acrobat Reader to make notes and comments, review with your team, fill and sign forms, and even send for signature. To do even more with your PDFs subscribe to Acrobat Pro DC.
- Instantly add information to your device’s contacts – Adobe Scan automatically adds the information from scanned business cards — in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian — to your device’s contacts.