Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go.

Scanning a letter document into a PDF digitizes your business's important documents in a way that enables text searches. The software technology that makes such searches possible is called optical ...

Like the GIF (that's Graphics Interchange Format), the PDF (Portable Document Format) has survived and flourished through the digital age. That's partly because of its versatility: It's the go-to ...

The Times of India's 'Hack of the Day' series offers a simple solution for signing and scanning documents using just your ...

The PDF format is meant to be non-editable, but if you scan a document that comes out too light or receive a contract with type that is too faint to read, you need a way to darken a PDF. Here are a ...

There’s more to iScanner than just digitizing documents, and you can get this handy app for only $25. How often do you need to scan documents? Is it often enough to sacrifice a chunk of desk space to ...

Apple’s new Preview app in iOS 26 makes editing photos and PDFs simple. Here’s how to use it and Android and Windows ...

You don't need to buy a scanner to sign, scan and send official documents -- just follow these steps to use the scanner right on your iPhone. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming ...

You can use your iPhone to scan documents, QR codes, and other files using the Notes app and your camera.

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