You can use your Android device’s camera for much more than snapping pictures. There are several great apps available for download that will transform your Android device into a portable document scanner. These apps allow you to snap a shot of almost anything – a whiteboard, sheet of paper, business card, invoice or newspaper article, to name a few – and save it as a PDF document that can be saved, managed and shared, all from your Android device. Here are five of the best camera scanners you can download from Google Play for free.
Five Best Camera Scanners for Android
CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator
From: IntSig Information Co., Ltd
This is the most downloaded scanning app in the world, with over 40 million downloads. This app gives users many options, including multi-page scanning, batch scanning, auto cropping and color enhancement and adjustment.
CamScanner also includes a number of management tools that let users add and define tags, copy, move, and search and merge their PDF files. This app comes in both and free and full versions; the free version has advertising and embeds a watermark on each document; the premium version does not.
REQUIRES ANDROID: 2.0 and up. SIZE: 8.7M.
Scan to PDF Free
From: Nym Computing
Fully featured, with no watermarks or advertising, Scan to PDF Free is another great scanner app that converts scanned documents into PDF files. Users can easily manage single and multipage documents, cropping, reordering and enhancing the pages. Select from several different page sizes in either the landscape or portrait format. The PDF files are stored on an SD card and can be shared or uploaded to Google doc.
REQUIRES ANDROID: 2.0 and up. SIZE: 1.2M
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Handy Scanner Free PDF Creator
From: Halfmobile
Handy Scanner Free PDF Creator produces both PDF and JPEG files. This app comes with several options to enhance the quality of scanned documents, from features that allow users to skew their documents to post-processing filters that give users high quality images with little background noise. The app’s camera component allows users to take multiple photos. When completed, users can easily share their files via email or the cloud.
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REQUIRES ANDROID: 2.2 and up. SIZE: 1.7M.
Mobile Doc Scanner – Free
From: STOIK
The Mobile Doc Scanner app automatically detects borders, fixes image distortions, and balances brightness to generate clear, legible documents. The batch shooting mode lets users quickly scan multiple pages and save their scanned files for batch processing at a later time. Upload the files directly from your Android device to your favorite cloud storage provider, email account or share directly to Facebook or Twitter. Mobile Doc Scanner – Free version comes with advertisements, all results are watermarked, and up to 4 pages can be scanned in batch mode.
REQUIRES ANDROID: 2.2 and up. SIZE: 1.7M.
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Brother Iprint & Scan
From: Brother Industries, Ltd.
The Brother iPrint and Scan app lets users scan and print from their Android device. Not only can this app be used to scan and create PDF files using your device’s camera, it also allows you to remotely print photos, G-mails, web pages and other documents (such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint using a Brother printer. Users can select from many different page sizes, print to black and white or color, using plain or glossy paper.
No computer or driver is required to print using the Brother iPrint and Scan app, users will need a memory card for printing or scanning and an HGVA (320×480 pixels) or larger screen on their android device.
REQUIRES ANDROID: 2.1 and up. SIZE: 3.6M.
Author Bio: James ODonnell works in the internet marketing support department of ScreenTek Inc., in Houston, TX.
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