Scanning app question

Legacy_user

I've never understood why there is a need for scanning apps when a simple photograph will do, zomming in & out

Murmansk

Scanning apps tend to turn the scan into a PDF or other type of file and can correct the document if it's not quite square, they can also do multi-page scans and some do optical character recognition. I've tried Genius Scanner and Scanbot and found them very good (Android)

Heedtheadvice

Horses for ..........scanning?


Photos can give good images with good colour rendition.


Not so good for OCR, creating various (compact) file types, inputs of original text to documents, copying to print, more difficult to light evenly, try it with very small originals unless you have macro facilities
...and lots more.

Gers

Photographs tend to be too large and not very clear for documents.

I use TinyScanner a lot, scans multiple pages if needed, colour or B/W and able to name each document. PDFs are a much more usuable type.

stragglebod

islandman wrote: »

I've never understood why there is a need for scanning apps when a simple photograph will do, zomming in & out

Then you don't have much of an imagination

Scanning apps can automatically crop, automatically adjust colour and contrast to suit documents, group photos of multiple page docs together, automatically name and automatically file.

When I first started using CamScanner (I've now switched to Microsoft Lens) I'm sure I saved £100+ because I was keeping on top of my expense claims so much better.

alan_d

I've used PaperPort for years to do this - create searchable, multi-page PDF documents of everything I scan. An image file can't do any of this.
I don't keep much paperwork - I scan everything, take a backup, then shred the original. Electronic paperwork is sooo much easier.