Adobe Scan is a free PDF scanner app, with in-app purchases, turns your iPhone iPad into a powerful portable PDF scanner that support OCR and recognize text automatically.

It is one of the best free scan apps we have found so far. With the scanner app, you can make anything scannable, receipts, notes, documents, pictures, business cards, whiteboards. The built-in free optical character recognition (OCR) lets you create editable PDFs that you can work with in any PDF reader, editor. Automatic PDF scan is supported. You can preview, reorder, crop, rotate and adjust color. It allows you to search, select, copy text, etc.

HOW IT WORKS
- Scan any document and convert to PDF or photo.
- Create high-quality scans of lengthy documents with Book Mode.
- Quickly scan and save your important documents to Dropbox or Google Drive so you can access and share them wherever you are.
- Adjust the brightness and contrast of your scans in just a few taps.
CAPTURE
- Scan anything with precision with this mobile PDF scanner.
- Advanced image technology automatically detects borders, sharpens scanned content, and recognizes text (OCR).
ENHANCE
- Whether it’s a PDF or photo scan, you can preview, reorder, crop, rotate, resize, and adjust color.
- Remove and edit imperfections, erase stains, marks, creases, even handwriting.
ORGANIZE
- Capture forms, receipts, notes, ID cards, health documents, and business cards and organize into custom folders so they are easy to access and find.
- Contact information will be automatically extracted so you can quickly add to your device contacts — no typing needed. You can even highlight expenses on tax receipts with ease.
QUICKLY FIND DOCUMENTS IN PHOTO LIBRARY
- This powerful scanner app automatically finds documents and receipts in your photos and turns them into PDF scans, so you don’t have to.
- Touch up scans or photos from your camera roll.
REUSE
- Turn your scan into a high-quality Adobe PDF that unlocks text for reuse through automated text recognition (OCR).
- Automatic OCR turns text into content you can edit, resize, and reuse in other documents.
SCAN ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME
- The Adobe Scan scanner app even lets you scan multi-page documents and save with a single tap.
- Even lengthy legal documents become manageable and scannable with the Adobe Scan scanner app, which lets you search, select, and copy text.
DO MORE WITH ACROBAT
- You can also open a PDF scan in Acrobat Reader to highlight key sections, add comments, fill and sign documents.
- Free, built-in optical character recognition (OCR) lets you reuse scanned text and content to work with in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
IN-APP PURCHASE
- Subscribe for even more scanning power. Subscriptions work across Scan and Reader mobile apps and Acrobat on web.
- Combine scans into one file so you can take multiple scans and consolidate into one document.
- Export PDFs to Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file formats to repurpose or reformat your documents.
- Increase OCR capacity from 25 to 100 pages so that you can find text in multiple scans.
Download
Download Adobe Scan from the App Store below.