Today marks the half way point for our 12 Apps of Christmas feature. We’re mentioning two apps today that can transform your mobile device into a portable scanner – Microsoft Office Lens and Tiny Scanner.
Microsoft Office Lens
This free app is great for taking pictures of documents even from awkward angles. It recognises the corners of documents and automatically crops, enhances and cleans up the image. It will save the scan as either an image or PDF file in OneNote or OneDrive. If you don’t use either of those, you can save the scan as an image on your phone to share later.
It’s available on Android, iOS and Windows mobile devices. To download, go to:
Android: Microsoft Office Lens
Windows (mobile devices): Microsoft Office Lens
Tiny Scanner
This scanning app allows you to save documents as PDFs to a folder on your device. You can then share the document by email. It also lets you set a passcode to protect your documents if you want to. There is a paid version with more features, such as sharing straight to EverNote or other apps, also available.
It’s available on iOS and Android phones and tablets. To download, go to:
Android: Tiny Scanner
iOS: Tiny Scanner
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