Since its introduction in 2007, the iPhone has been eliminating stand-alone devices left and right. Chances are, you’ve replaced your GPS unit, your point-and-shoot camera, your daily planner, and a dozen other things. But what about that old scanner in your office? Get ready to donate or eBay it because your iPhone and iPad can tackle this job too. These are the best scanner apps on the iTunes App Store. Check out our list of the best iPhone scanner apps below. This article is part of our Best iPhone Apps series where we categorize the best apps for iPhone and iPad. Click here to find out more.

Office Lens – Convert physical papers into editable Word documents on iPhone

While there are a number of iPhone scanner apps on the App Store, Office Lens is the first free app we've seen that does Optical Character Recognition well! Just point your camera at any physical document. Office Lens will scan it, crop it, then OCR it and send it to ...
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Scanbot Pro – An amazing OCR scanner for iPhone and iPad

When doo GmbH launched Scanbot back in April, we must admit that we were skeptical. Skeptical that it could 1) make a dent in the crowded scanner app market. And 2) that it could dethrone our favorite scanner app Scanner Pro by Readdle. Yet Scanbot started making waves across the ...
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PDFpen Scan+ – Create Searchable PDFs from your iPhone Camera

For years the "paperless lifestyle" has been a buzzword among environmentalists and a goal to shoot for by the masses. Recently however, our iPhones and iPads have made this goal more attainable. Surprisingly the camera technology housed within each device is spearheading this paperless movement. How so? Apple's precisely tuned ...
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Scanner Pro by Readdle – Turn your iPhone and iPad into a Portable Scanner

My file cabinet was becoming overfilled. Something needed to be done. Even after switching most of my bank statements and bills to paperless delivery, I still got the occasional paper document that I needed to keep. I had long since gotten rid of my stand alone scanner. Could the iPhone ...
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