The IRIScan Book 7 ($169) is a hand-operated wand scanner that’s small enough to bring with you almost anywhere. You could ...

So I have a law firm client with an HP 5590 scanner with document feeder. They routinely scan 30-40 page documents as PDFs. The hardware works fine and the document feeder is robust, but I have four ...

In the relentless quest for a truly paperless workspace, our smartphones have become the new file cabinets. The mobile scanning application is now a critical piece of software, tasked with turning ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows editing text in a graphic image or scanned document. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, computerize an office ...

We kind of hate scanners, having thrown ours in the trash in favor of a pocket digicam. But with CES coming up the Gadget Lab crew is about to engage in its traditional field-work contest: who can ...

Scanning apps have become a big category on iOS. There are a lot of great options and the quality and diversity of the category creates a healthy competitive atmosphere that means frequent updates and ...

Optical Character Recognition provides a nearly automated means of digitizing text from scanned pages, eliminating the need to retype them. Adobe Acrobat Professional includes OCR capabilities that ...

Document scanning software allows you to draw information from documents in all forms in the easiest way possible without sacrificing accuracy. You can then use scanned data anywhere you want with no ...

ABBYY announced today that its optical character recognition (OCR) software for the Mac, FineReader 5 Pro, is now shipping. The software enables a Mac equipped with an optical scanner to convert paper ...

The popular Scanner Pro iOS app from Readdle is out with a notable update. It brings a really useful automated OCR feature, a fresh modern design including a new list view and sorting options, as well ...

Do I have to use the OCR app that was bundled with my scanner, or is there a freeware app that you can recommend? Thanks. Beeba works (worked?) for a company making OCR software. I don't know if he's ...