While we're well into the digital era, where communication is quick, and photos are stored in electronic devices rather than physical photobooks, there are still instances when you have to deal with ...

Turn tax paperwork into PDFs, make a digital copy of your titles and deeds, and save other important documents with the best scanning apps. I've been contributing to PCMag since 2011 in a variety of ...

OCR technology is nothing new. There are multitudes of quality OCR software which helps you convert images and scanned documents into editable text. But in this age of smartphone dominance, having ...

There are quite a few choices on iTunes for apps that can turn images of documents, book pages, business cards, and more into digital, editable text. Our favorite is TextGrabber for its ease of use, ...

If you want fine-grained control over OCR and unmatched export options to a plethora of formats, ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac is definitely worth a close look, but the current version has some ...

I’ve long been using Prizmo to quickly extract text contained in photos using the iPhone’s camera. Developed by Creaceed, Prizmo has always stood out among iOS scanner apps thanks to its accurate and ...

Despite the rapidly evolving technology, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) applications still haven’t been able to progress at a substantial level. Most of them are either utterly inconsistent and ...

Microsoft today updated its OneNote note-taking service with optical character recognition (OCR) support across all platforms. The company also released a new version of its iPad app, adding ...

This post in a thread on the Programmer's Symposium will tell you what I'm trying to do. If you haven't already read the thread, this previous post will give you a recap of why I'm trying to do it.