The rise of tablet computers, such as Apple's iPad, and e-book readers, such as Amazon's Kindle, has resulted in a rise in popularity for electronic versions of books. If you want to use one with a ...

Keeping track of and storing physical documents can be a pain. Health records get mixed up with work contracts, your tax document folder has some stray business cards floating around in it, and those ...

If you own a printer, then you’ll know how tedious the scanning software is. These companies seem to excel in hardware but fail in the software department while all the time relying on Windows to work ...

Sometimes, you need to turn a piece of paper into a digital file. Maybe you need to include a receipt, registration, or other form of proof in an online form. Or, you want to keep copies of your ...

Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go. By J. D. Biersdorfer I write the monthly Tech Tip column, which is devoted to ...

The software drivers needed to operate a wide variety of document scanning devices are preinstalled on distributions of Ubuntu Linux. In additon, Ubuntu includes a basic scanning application that lets ...

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 ...

You can scan any document directly from your camera app if you have a Samsung Galaxy phone with One UI 2 or higher or a Google Pixel phone with Google Camera 7.2 or higher. If you’re using a different ...

While most of our world is digital, the need to scan paper documents – from textbook pages and tax receipts to important paperwork – remains. For those using Google Drive, there's a convenient ...

Tax season isn’t only when the IRS kicks into high gear. Scammers do, too. Rumors swirl every time a new rule or regulation rolls out, and you can bet cybercriminals use that confusion to swindle ...

Document scanning is another valuable thing that your smartphone can do. After all, you have at least one camera on the back of your phone. That means it can scan documents. Many folks use their main ...

Every time you need to upload documents online, you’ll find yourself looking for a good scanner app. For those with Androids, here are some of the best you can find. Some of these apps support optical ...