More and more readers are turning to the digital world, so much so that it is currently a problem to have so many physical books because of the space they occupy and because they cannot carry them as one would like. Fortunately OCR has jumped into the mobile world and with our mobile we can digitize any book or any document in just a few seconds, you just need to have the right app and a little light with the correct approach. Below I tell you the three best apps that exist to be able to digitize documents. The intention of these apps is to digitize documents, not to use them to pirate books. And in any case, the most honorable and legal thing would be to be able to digitize books that are ours and have been obtained legally, as a digital backup. In any case, neither the owners of the apps nor we are responsible for their misuse.
CamScanner
CamScanner is the most famous of them all because it is the app that was included in certain Samsung mobiles. But the really good thing about this app is that it works very well. It not only digitizes documents but creates a range of versions before digitizing so that we choose the most readable and allows you to create documents in various formats, among which is clearly the pdf format. It also has a very powerful editor that allows us to eliminate the part of the image that is not text so that its OCR works better. During the last versions CamScanner has incorporated two new functions that It will allow us to send documents to Fax and direct printing from the mobile, something useful for those who use the app as a work tool.
Office Lens
Office Lens is Microsoft's app but it is available on Android and iOS. This app has a great OCR engine that allows text recognition with shadows and highlights. But the most interesting is its suitability with Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint that makes any digitized document editable with Word or any other Microsoft program. Currently Office is the most used suite, so a tool like Office Lens is interesting for users who work with the suite.
Google Drive
Yes, indeed Google Drive has a function that allows us to digitize documents. The function is called "Scan" and it allows you to scan multiple documents and upload them to the Google cloud space. It is totally free and very simple, but your ocr needs good lighting conditions to be able to scan. Although it is the simplest tool of the three, it is also the one that can give the worst results and is only available for Android.
Conclusion to digitize documents
Any of these three apps helps us to digitize a document, at least if we are not very demanding, any of these apps can also upload documents to the cloud and create pdf files, but if we want a professional option, the choice is clear: CamScanner. Its operation at a professional level surprises many and it is not for less, although in recent months Office Lens has greatly shortened the difference, it may in a short time be superior to CamScanner, but for the moment, to scan documents, the best option is CamScanner Which one do you stay with?