{"id":18082,"date":"2017-06-01T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18082"},"modified":"2017-06-01T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:23:41","slug":"adobe-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/adobe-scan\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/01\/adobe-scan-ocr-app\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/01\/adobe-scan-ocr-app\/\">\n<p>Unlike most OCR apps on the market, Adobe Scan is free to use, with no watermarks or page limits, and it's optimized for capturing multi-page documents.<\/p>\n<p>The app works by capturing a picture of what a user wants to scan, from notes and forms to receipts and business cards. Adobe Scan detects the edges of a document, captures and cleans the image, fixes perspective, removes shadows, and then uses image recognition to detect and convert printed text.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/adobe-scan-free-pdf-scanner-documents-receipts\/id1199564834?mt=8\">tried it<\/a> and found it OK. The OCR works pretty well, and the capturing interface is streamlined. As with <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/dropbox-document-scanning-tech\/\">Dropbox<\/a>, it creates much larger PDF files than my ScanSnap. It supports iOS share extensions, but before you can share a newly created PDF you have to save it to Adobe Document Cloud. I&rsquo;ve tried a lot of these apps, but in practice I find myself waiting until I have access to my ScanSnap or just using the built-in Camera app.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/iphone-scanningocr-apps\/\">iPhone Scanning\/OCR Apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/scanbot.io\/en\/index.html\">Scanbot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/readdle.com\/products\/scannerpro\">Scanner Pro<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Unlike most OCR apps on the market, Adobe Scan is free to use, with no watermarks or page limits, and it's optimized for capturing multi-page documents. The app works by capturing a picture of what a user wants to scan, from notes and forms to receipts and business cards. Adobe Scan detects the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[447,1527,47,952,31,1380,26,622,623],"class_list":["post-18082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-scan","tag-dropbox","tag-fujitsu-scansnap","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-iosapp","tag-ocr","tag-scanner"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18083,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions\/18083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}