Like the GIF (that's Graphics Interchange Format), the PDF (Portable Document Format) has survived and flourished through the digital age. That's partly because of its versatility: It's the go-to ...

Discover how your iPhone doubles as a document scanner using the Notes app or SwiftScan. Effortlessly digitize, edit, and share documents!

On the File Option tab, if you check off "Searchable PDF," the ScanSnap will also perform OCR on the document (though this will slow down the scanning process).

VueScan will scan several pages and save them to a PDF file. It's fairly simple to use once you've figured out the hooks in the UI.

Learn how to open the Scan app on a Windows computer and use it to scan a document. We have also explained in brief its Settings.

The PDF format is meant to be non-editable, but if you scan a document that comes out too light or receive a contract with type that is too faint to read, you need a way to darken a PDF. Here are ...

You no longer need a separate scanner to transform paper documents into digital text. Here are a few ways to scan documents with your Samsung Galaxy A phone.