Adobe Scan: PDF Scanner, OCR

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4.6
28.6L reviews
10Cr+
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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
28.1L reviews
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
Alex Betsos
13 December 2024
Very helpful for taking scans, struggles with old typewritten text. my big frustration is that you can batch download & upload files. individually downloading each file is a pain. this makes it less than an ideal tool for the historian sifting through multiple records. I'll keep using it until i find a better option, but everytime i have to pull 15 files I want to tear my hair out
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Adobe
16 December 2024
Hi there! We appreciate your feedback about the challenges. Can you please share a screen recording of the workflow with our community of experts (https://adobe.ly/adobescancommunity) for better assistance? We will love to investigate what's not working for you and help resolve the issues. Thanks! SS
Alana M
4 January 2025
Was a helpful app initially, liked being able to adjust brightness and contrast, auto-crop, and use a masking tool, but it just took me 2 hrs to scan 50 recipe cards because it kept crashing (error: something went wrong), then wouldn't save as a pdf. Have uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times and it's still super buggy.
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