Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go.

These days, it's pretty easy to digitally sign important documents, but sometimes you just need to sign a physical piece of paper and scan it to send over email. When you just have to put your ...

How do you translate a PDF? Maybe you scanned a page from a friend’s German cake recipes book. Or perhaps you’re living abroad and you have no idea what the police just made you sign. There are plenty ...

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So, you’re working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic and you have a document you need to scan. You've seen the slew of third-party scanner apps you have to ...

One of the best new features that arrived in iOS 11 (reviewed here) was the ability to scan a document using your iPhone. Prior to the launch of iOS 11 you might have used your iPhone camera to ...

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If you've scanned a document with your scanner or phone and have the image as a JPG file, it's often useful to convert that image to a PDF. Using Adobe Acrobat, you can even automatically process text ...

You need a way to accurately scan photos and other images on your mobile device. You can do this with a variety of different apps. One app worth trying is PhotoScan by Google Photos. Designed for ...