Adobe Scan: PDF Scanner, OCR

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4.4
2.76M reviews
100M+
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Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognizes text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG.

The most intelligent scanner app. Scan anything — receipts, notes, documents, photos, business cards, whiteboards — with text you can reuse from each PDF and photo scan.

HOW IT WORKS
• With the Adobe Scan scanner app, you can make anything scannable.
• Use the PDF scanner to quickly create a photo scan or PDF scan.
• Scan any document and convert to PDF.

CAPTURE
• Scan anything with precision with this mobile PDF scanner.
• Advanced image technology automatically detects borders, sharpens scanned content, and recognizes text (OCR).

ENHANCE
• Touch up scans or photos from your camera roll.
• Whether it’s a PDF or photo scan, you can preview, reorder, crop, rotate, and adjust color.

CLEANUP UP YOUR SCANS
• Remove and edit imperfections, erase stains, marks, creases, even handwriting.

REUSE
• Turn your photo scan into a high-quality Adobe PDF that unlocks text through automated text recognition (OCR).
• Reuse text from each PDF scan thanks to OCR.

SCAN ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME
• Capture forms, receipts, notes, and business cards with this mobile PDF scanner.
• The amazing new High-Speed Scan tool uses AI to bulk scan larger documents in seconds.

RECYCLE CONTENT
• The Adobe Scan PDF scanner makes any content scannable and reusable.
• Free, built-in optical character recognition (OCR) lets you reuse scanned text and content by creating a high-quality PDF you can work with in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader app.
• You can even turn Adobe Scan into a tax receipt scanner to highlight expenses with ease.

QUICKLY FIND DOCUMENTS IN PHOTO LIBRARY
• This powerful scanner app automatically finds documents and receipts in your photos and turns them into PDF scans, so you don't have to.
• Automatic OCR turns text into content you can edit, resize, and reuse in other documents.

SAVE BUSINESS CARDS TO CONTACTS
• Scan a business card and Adobe Scan turns into a fast business card scanner and reader.
• Contact information will be automatically extracted so you can quickly add to your device contacts — no typing needed.

GET MORE DONE ON THE GO
• Save each scan to Adobe Document Cloud for instant access and sharing.
• Even lengthy legal documents become manageable and scannable with the Adobe Scan scanner app, which lets you search, select, and copy text.
• You can also open a PDF scan in Acrobat Reader to highlight key sections, add comments, fill and sign.

IN-APP PURCHASE
Subscribe for even more scanning power. Subscriptions work across Scan and Reader mobile apps and Acrobat on the web.
• Combine scans into one file so you can take multiple scans and consolidate into one document.
• Export PDFs to Microsoft Word or PowerPoint file formats to integrate with your workflows.
• Increase OCR capacity from 25 to 100 pages so that you can find text in multiple scans.

Download the best free mobile scanner to convert photos and documents into PDF and JPEG files wherever you are. With OCR technology, you can easily digitalize books, business cards, and business receipts and access them via the Adobe Document Cloud. Adobe Scan is the PDF converter trusted by millions worldwide. Scan photos to high-quality PDFs or JPEGs and share easier than ever before.

Terms & Conditions:
Your use of this application is governed by the Adobe General Terms of Use http://www.adobe.com/go/terms_en and the Adobe Privacy Policy http://www.adobe.com/go/privacy_policy_en

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information: www.adobe.com/go/ca-rights
Updated on
May 20, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App activity
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
2.71M reviews
Bernd Bausch
July 29, 2023
It does more or less what I need it for. Great for a free app. What I don't like is the fact that documents are auto-coloured by default. The first document I scanned with this app has white text on blue background. It was turned into an ugly gray monochrome and barely readable PDF. I would think that most people want the original colours as default. To obtain the original, I have to apply filter settings each time I scan something. This is tiring, and it's easy to forget this step.
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Leo w
June 13, 2024
It's a wonderful tool. It helps me a lot, 100% recommended, Guys! It needs an improvement, after taking a photo of the document, do not attach the other poorly taken photos as a tail!! That's wrong, I took several photos of a document because they didn't turn out very well and when I sent said document converted to PDF to my supervisor instead of sending "1" a document, the other poorly taken photos were attached! It made me look bad, improve that in PDF Scan, remove that option of attaching the
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Adobe
May 10, 2024
Thanks for taking the time to encourage us with your 5★ ratings. Keep using our app! ^Sonika
Samuel Omora
June 26, 2024
A great scanner I must say. As a lawyer running a private law firm, I've always had challenges with scanning paper sizes larger than A4 with my office scanner, but not anymore. If your camera lens can capture it, Adobe Scanner just does the rest! That being said, some of the filters (Grayscale & Light Text for example) increase the size of the doc astronomically. You might want to look into that and address it going forward.
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Adobe
June 26, 2024
We're glad Adobe Scan helps you with large paper sizes, yet we hear you are concerned about the filter size. Thank you for sharing your feedback! ^SS