If you live in Canada, you will frequently need to take photos of paper documents such as rental agreements, school applications, bank statements, and receipts. However, if you simply take a picture with a camera, the image is often tilted or shadowed, making it easy to be asked to resend it. Free document scanning apps Adobe ScanIf you use it, your mobile phone becomes a small scanner.
What kind of app is it?
Adobe Scan is a free downloadable app provided by Adobe that takes a picture of a paper document, automatically detects the edges to crop it neatly, and sharpens the text to create a PDF or JPEG file. You can scan a wide variety of objects, from receipts and ID cards to memos, business cards, and whiteboards.
Key Features
1) Automatic boundary recognition and correction — Even if you take a picture at an angle, it recognizes the document borders to straighten them and reduces shadows and smudges. Cropping, rotation, and brightness adjustment are also available within the app.
2) OCR (Character Recognition) — Converts scanned text into searchable and copyable text. It is convenient for finding necessary sentences in long documents.
3) Convert multiple pages into a single PDF — You can rearrange the page order and preview, allowing you to combine multi-page documents, such as contracts, into a single PDF file. It also supports high-speed scanning to quickly capture multiple pages in succession.
4) Business Card Recognition and Organization Folder Scanning a business card allows you to extract contact information and save it to your phonebook, and organize documents by creating folders. Scanned files are automatically saved to the Adobe cloud, allowing you to open them on other devices.
It is good to use it like this in immigrant life.
Scanning moving contracts and utility bills and saving them as PDFs reduces the worry of losing them, and taking photos of receipts needed for tax filing as you go and organizing them in a folder makes them easy to find at the end of the year. You can also scan your children's school documents or medical application forms directly from home and send them via email.
Things to know before use
Downloading and basic scanning are free, but some advanced features may require a paid subscription, so please check the details first if a payment screen appears. For sensitive documents such as passports and visas, please verify whether they are stored in the cloud, and double-check that the receiving institution is correct when sending them. Please ensure that you install the app only from the official app stores (Google Play or App Store).
Source: Adobe Scan — Google Play App Introduction https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.scan.android&hl=en-gb&gl=is | 
