Adobe Scan: PDF Scanner, OCR

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4.6
2.86M reviews
100M+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognises text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple file formats including PDF and JPEG.

The most intelligent scanner app. Scan anything — receipts, notes, documents, photos, business cards, whiteboards — with text you can reuse from each PDF and photo scan.

HOW IT WORKS
• With the Adobe Scan scanner app, you can make anything scannable.
• Use the PDF scanner to quickly create a photo scan or PDF scan.

CAPTURE
• Scan anything with precision with this mobile PDF scanner.
• Advanced image technology automatically detects borders, sharpens scanned content, and recognises text (OCR).

ENHANCE
• NEW: Edit in Scan feature allows you to edit your scans.
• Touch up scans or photos from your camera roll.
• Whether it’s a PDF or photo scan, you can preview, reorder, crop, rotate, and adjust colour.

CLEANUP UP YOUR SCANS
• Remove and edit imperfections, erase stains, marks, creases, even handwriting.

REUSE
• Turn your photo scan into a high-quality Adobe PDF that unlocks text through automated text recognition (OCR).
• Reuse text from each PDF scan thanks to OCR.

SCAN ANYTHING, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME
• Capture forms, receipts, notes, and business cards with this mobile PDF scanner.
• The Adobe Scan scanner app even lets you scan multi-page documents and save with a single tap.

RECYCLE CONTENT
• The Adobe Scan PDF scanner makes any content scannable and reusable.
• Free, built-in optical character recognition (OCR) lets you reuse scanned text and content by creating a high-quality PDF you can work with in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader app.
• You can even turn Adobe Scan into a tax receipt scanner to highlight expenses 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.
• Automatic OCR turns text into content you can edit, resize, and reuse in other documents.

SAVE BUSINESS CARDS TO CONTACTS
• Scan a business card and Adobe Scan turns into a fast business card scanner and reader.
• Contact information will be automatically extracted so you can quickly add to your device contacts — no typing needed.

GET MORE DONE ON THE GO
• Save each scan to Adobe Document Cloud for instant access and sharing.
• Even lengthy legal documents become manageable and scannable with the Adobe Scan scanner app, which lets you search, select, and copy text.
• You can also open a PDF scan in Acrobat Reader to highlight key sections, add comments, fill and sign.

IN-APP PURCHASE
Subscribe for even more scanning power. Subscriptions work across Scan and Reader mobile apps and Acrobat on the web.
• Combine scans into one file so you can take multiple scans and consolidate into one document.
• Export PDFs to Microsoft Word or PowerPoint file formats to integrate with your workflows.
• Increase OCR capacity from 25 to 100 pages so that you can find text in multiple scans.

Download the best free mobile scanner to convert photos and documents into PDF and JPEG files wherever you are. With OCR technology, you can easily digitalise books, business cards, and business receipts and access them via the Adobe Document Cloud. Adobe Scan is the PDF converter trusted by millions worldwide. Scan photos to high-quality PDFs or JPEGs and share easier than ever before.

Terms & Conditions:
Your use of this application is governed by the Adobe General Terms of Use http://www.adobe.com/go/terms_uk and the Adobe Privacy Policy http://www.adobe.com/go/privacy_policy_uk

Do not sell or share my personal information www.adobe.com/go/ca-rights
Updated on
7 Jan 2025
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Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App activity
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
2.81M reviews
Maxim Karpenko
28 December 2024
I took one document and scanned it with this app, Microsoft Lens, and Foxit scan tool. Adobe Scan produced the best result automatically. Foxit produced a similar result with manual tinkering, however, it lacks Adobe's cleanup feature to white out the edges. Microsoft Lens was meh -- better than a regular picture with a phone camera, worse than the other two. So, for me, there is a clear winner. I use Adobe Scan regularly for work and plan to do so in the future.
64 people found this review helpful
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Me Too
12 February 2024
Can the user interface be worse? It is a nightmare to get a large number of files out of this app, files are hidden when attaching to a pc, select all files not available, when using the wrong option selection is gone again and generated links are for single files. Designed to force users into frustration, do much even that I am willing to spend time on writing a review. And I forgot to talk about the incredible useless naming of scanned documents... Luckily I am running out of characters...
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Adobe
16 February 2024
Uh oh! I am extremely sorry to hear you're having trouble with Adobe Scan. We're here to help. Please post a new thread in our community forums at https://adobe.ly/scancommunity and send us screenshots/videos of the problem. Our experts can follow up there to troubleshoot further. I hope this helps. Thanks, SS
William Davis
18 January 2025
I'm uncomfortable with allowing Adobe to store my most sensitive documents. The scanner doesn't by default download the document to your device - and then afterwards delete it ( and hope and pray that it's also deleted from the cloud ). For this reason, I'm deleting the app in favor of an app that doesn't require the user to be connected to the cloud.
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