The new Digitize tool lets you turn handwritten notes and whiteboards into editable, searchable documents that look digitally created. Currently available in beta.
6 WAYS TO USE THE ADOBE SCANNER APP
1) Save time with a fast document scanner app: Use High-speed scan to bulk scan documents and turn stacks into PDFs in seconds.
2) Make a PDF with your phone: Convert paper documents or printed photos into PDFs or JPEGs with the mobile PDF and photo scanner app.
3) Ask AI Assistant to pull the key points from any scan, get follow-up answers or draft emails, reports, and next steps from your scan.
4) Use Generative summary: One tap pulls the key points from any scan, so you can find what matters and summarise your docs in a tap with AI.
5) Turn images to text: Use the image-to-text feature to make words in your scans searchable and editable with OCR.
6) Scan anything: Receipts, IDs, notes, recipes, photos, business cards, whiteboards – this document scanner app and PDF maker gives you files you can work with on your phone, tablet, or computer.
CAPTURE WITH PRECISION • The Straighten tool fixes pages that come out curved or tilted while you scan, even if all four corners aren’t visible in the scanner. • Advanced scanner technology detects document borders, sharpens content, and makes your scans editable and searchable.
ENHANCE YOUR SCANS • Edit in text lets you scan words, and handwritten text, to make it editable. • Use a photo scanner that converts photos to PDFs, then try the Modify tool to crop, rotate, resize, and adjust colours in your scans. • Reorder pages and preview before saving. • Adjust the brightness and contrast of your scans in just a few taps. • The Magic eraser tool removes unwanted fingers, shadows, stains, and creases in your scan in one tap.
ORGANISE YOUR DOCUMENTS • A PDF maker that scans paperwork and lets you create custom folders for work documents, personal files, school forms, or ID scans. • Contact details are pulled straight from business cards, so you can save them to your phone contacts in seconds. • Scans are automatically saved to Adobe Document Cloud for instant access and sharing. • Set a password to keep that important scan secure while you send it.
SMART LIBRARY • This powerful scanner app finds documents, receipts, and photos in your library and converts them into PDFs. • Touch up scans or turn photos into PDFs directly from your camera roll.
REUSE & SHARE • A high-quality PDF maker and document scanner that unlocks text from images – from scanned contracts to study notes – so you can copy, edit, and reuse. • Export your scans to Word, Excel, or PowerPoint for new formats, then share.
DO MORE WITH ACROBAT READER • Open your PDF scan in Acrobat Reader to comment, highlight, fill forms, and sign documents. • Access and share securely across Scan, Reader, and Acrobat on web and mobile.
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. • Increase OCR capacity from 5 to 100 pages so that you can find text in multiple images.
Download this free mobile scanner app to convert important photos and documents into PDF and JPEG files to help you stay organised. Adobe Scan is the PDF converter trusted by millions worldwide.
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You never know when you'll need those bills or forms. Scan and save it to PDF.
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November 15, 2018
Not sure where all the good reviews are coming from, this thing is useless! It constantly hunts moving the blue box around all over and can't make its mind up as to what is and what isn't my document! I've tried a wooden table and on a large sheet of white paper, no luck. I have over 200 pages to digitalise, with this app it will take me forever. EDIT: I recommend CamScanner instead.
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May 30, 2019
Very good app for scanning documents. Compared to other similar apps, this one does not have annoying ads or features that you can only get by paying a subscription (or I haven't found them yet). The app is really good at recongnising the document and scanning it automatically, although sometimes I need to recalubrate it by selecting a previous scan and then going back to scanning, but this can be fixed with a software update. Overall very good product!
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Jim Monaco
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September 5, 2025
Garbage page detection. App should be really good, but trying to scan multiple pages in a document wastes more time than it would save. The app searches for pages to scan but it will take basically anything: your hand, the floor, a blurry picture of a coffee mug... it snaps anything and moves to the next page. It ruins any document you're trying to scan by taking a bunch of useless pictures. If you can get it to actually take a picture of a page then it's great.
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Adobe
September 5, 2025
Hi there! Sorry for the trouble with page detection. We understand how frustrating that can be. The app uses auto-capture by default, which may misidentify objects. You can turn it off by tapping Autoscan (left of the capture button). Manual mode gives better control. We're working to improve detection. Thanks for your input! ^SS