Scanning a letter document into a PDF digitizes your business's important documents in a way that enables text searches. The software technology that makes such searches possible is called optical ...

Gone are the days when you needed a bulky scanner to digitize important documents: Your iPhone is a high-quality scanner that you always have in your pocket. Whether you need documentation for ...

Like the GIF (that's Graphics Interchange Format), the PDF (Portable Document Format) has survived and flourished through the digital age. That's partly because of its versatility: It's the go-to ...

The PDF format is meant to be non-editable, but if you scan a document that comes out too light or receive a contract with type that is too faint to read, you need a way to darken a PDF. Here are a ...

Make a digital copy of your deeds and titles, save other important documents, and turn tax paperwork into PDFs with the best scanning apps we've tested. I'm an expert in software and work-related ...

You don't need to buy a scanner to sign, scan and send official documents -- just follow these steps to use the scanner right on your iPhone. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming ...

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in Google Drive allows users to automatically extract text from PDF files and save them in a Google Docs document. This can help to save time when ...

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