Scanning receipts while you travel, notes on a whiteboard, or sketches on an envelope can be easy. The best apps for the job take a snapshot, can do text recognition, save your scan to the cloud for ...

Gboard for Android is beginning to roll out a rather nifty “Scan Text” optical character recognition (OCR) tool. Scan Text appears in the grid of Gboard capabilities and can be dragged to the toolbar ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows editing text in a graphic image or scanned document. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize an office ...

Optical Character Recognition provides a nearly automated means of digitizing text from scanned pages, eliminating the need to retype them. Adobe Acrobat Professional includes OCR capabilities that ...

The popular Scanner Pro iOS app from Readdle is out with a notable update. It brings a really useful automated OCR feature, a fresh modern design including a new list view and sorting options, as well ...

In the relentless quest for a truly paperless workspace, our smartphones have become the new file cabinets. The mobile scanning application is now a critical piece of software, tasked with turning ...

For nearly a decade, Bill focused on printer and scanner technology and reviews for PCMag, and wrote about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. He authored or co-authored ...

I'm using really old CPU power right now. I'd like something that's faster in general, and one thing in particular I'd like to speed up is my text scanning and OCR capabilities in Abbyy Finereader. I ...