Best Apps To Scan Documents For iPhone 2020

Scanning documents has become a basic need in today's world as everything is going online. Scanning plays a major role in our lives because we need a photo scanner from uploading a birth certificate to sharing your resume to any company.

Scanning documents and preserving them on your iPhone will also help you in reducing your hassle to find the document at the time when you need it as you can directly send the document straight from your iPhone and if you urgently need a hard copy also of that document you can directly print it. Same thing you can do with your old photos as you will surely lose that memory one day if you don't preserve them properly.

This also helps you to save your essential documents for a longer period as it is a human tendency that we easily forget the places of our essential documents.

Now to scan your documents you need a good and reliable app that scans your documents perfectly plus with some clarity also like removing the light flare and many more.

You'll find many scanning apps available on AppStore but the best apps to scan documents for iPhone are PhotoScan by Google and CamScanner.

These are the two best photo scanning apps that you can get today and in this article I'll try to explain to you each and every feature these apps offer and why they are said to be the best in their field.

PhotoScan By Google

As the name suggests it is developed by Google and provides you with some of the best features and experience that you can get in any photo scanning app on the iPhone. First, we'll talk about what this app offers, and then I'll tell you how you can scan your document perfectly in this app.

Features

• When you open the app for the first time the app itself guides you with each and every step from how you can scan photos to what you get in this app.
• You get a feature to remove the lens flare you can either make it on or off as per your wish. It mainly helps you to remove the light flare or some other flare from the photo/document as it usually appears.
• You get a normal flash feature which again is your wish to use it or not while scanning any document. But a pro tip is that you should use flash as it helps the document to look more clear and maintained.
  
• After scanning a particular document you get options to

1. Adjust the corners. You need this feature almost every time you scan something till the time you don't have proper lighting while scanning.
2. Rotate the scanned image/document. This you can use as per your need.
3. Delete 

• After scanning, the document itself gets saved in your gallery plus in the app's own gallery.
• You get an option to share the document straight from the app to any other social media platform.
• If you are facing any problem while scanning or using the app you get the option for taking help also. Help option is located under the three dots on the top right corner next to the share option.
• As being a Google app you get an option to sync your photos directly to the Google photos if you wish to do so.

How To Scan A Document Perfectly

To scan the particular document on PhotoScan accurately follow these steps:-

1. Position the document within the frame.
2. Click the circle available on the bottom of the screen as it refers to the scan option 
3. Then follow the 4 circle given to you on the screen, directions will be given by the app itself
4. Make sure lens flare removal is on
5. Adjust the corners after scanning the pic
   

CamScanner

Most of you must have already heard of this app as it is the most used photo scanner app on iPhones. Everyone prefers it over any other photo scanning app because it provides you with some of the best features plus you get more interesting features than PhotoScan.

Features

• When you open the app you come across Docs page where all your scanned documents are kept next to it is Scanning option and the last one you'll see on the bottom right is the Profile option.
• The app provides you with the option to 

1. Create different folders
2. Filter out documents by various options such as created date, Update date, and many more. this feature surely helps you to ease your stress of finding a document when you need it immediately.
3. If someone has shared some documents with you on the app itself, the app provides you with individual pages also such as Shared With Me, All docs, Unarchived.

• When you Scan a document you get options on what you want to scan, it could be an ID Card, ImageToExcel, ID Photo, Image to Text and the most amazing and unique one is Greeting Card. This option lets you scan a picture with numerous options of applying a nice looking template over it. This option comes in very handy if you want to send some greetings to your loved ones. 
• You get an option to make a Batch of scanned documents and save them/ Share them together.
• When you scan a photo on the ID Photo option the app provides you with an option to select the size of the photo. Quite interesting right? you get the option of Visa size, 14*18, and many more. You can choose yourself. 
  
• After scanning you get an option to adjust the corners the same as you get in PhotoScan but it provides you some more features also. You get options to edit your document too. There are a lot of options provided like changing the filter on the document, Brightness, Contrast, and many more. The most usable filter of CamScanner is the Lighten one as it brightens ups your image and makes it more clear.
• If you are scanning any handwritten document in any language and you want it to look clear then you can use the Recognize option. It has tons of language to choose from after choosing the right language, it recognizes the text and makes it more clear to read.
• It also provides options to combine documents by making collages, sharing documents without any watermark, adding a signature, and many more but that features are only available to paid users.
• You get options to share the documents in txt format, JPG format, and pdf format which is something that very few apps provide you in free.
• Sometimes the pdf files or any other files are big in size for that this app provides you with the file compression option also so that you don't hassle in compressing your documents.
• You can directly open a scanned document by saying "Open my scanned document" by adding the CamScanner to Siri.
  

The app provides numerous features out of which some of them I have shared with you others you can find via exploring the app yourself.

Scanning documents in CamScanner is straight forward and simple to understand there is no need for any special protocol to follow while scanning a document.

Overall

Both the apps will impress you with there performance plus what they offer. PhotoScan is a totally free app you get all the features of it in the free version itself but that is not the case with CamScanner as it has a paid version too. Although you get most of the features of CamScanner in the free version itself but you cannot see the full potential of the app in its free version for that you have to buy the premium one. But for your day to day task form scanning a document to compressing a file the free version of CamScanner is sufficient.  

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