Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TJ McCue is Seattle-based and covers tech & productivity tools. Apr 28, 2020, 07:20am EDT This article is more than 5 years old.

Adobe today announced the launch of Adobe Scan, a new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) app that's able to scan documents and convert printed text into digital text in a matter of seconds. Unlike ...

Adobe today is launching a new mobile app that makes it easier to convert paper documents and other things into digital, editable PDF files. While there’s no shortage of scan-to-PDF apps on the App ...

Have you ever received a scanned PDF and wished you could edit it as convenient as a regular MS Word file? We’ve all been there. That’s where Optical Character Recognition (OCR) comes in –the ...

Thanks to Adobe's new app, you'll never need to painstakingly scan documents ever again. Called Adobe Scan, the app can snap photos of paper documents and turn them ...

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 ...

Finance documents like bank statements, tax forms, and investment reports often show up as scanned PDFs you can't search through. It's a ...

Since I started using a document scanner about seven years ago, I’ve scanned many thousands of pages and used OCR (optical character recognition) software to convert those scans into searchable PDFs.