
There is a share button in the app, so scans can also be sent to a printer, emailed, added to Notes, Google Keep, OneNote, Google Drive and so on. It scans documents and saves them as an Evernote note. If you use Evernote for storing notes, Evernote Scannable is a useful companion app. Price: Free | By: Evernote | iOS: 8.0 and up | Size: 81MB This is an excellent scanner app for the iPhone. The resulting scan, a PDF, can be shared in every way you can think of and here are just a few: email, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Photos, Reminders, Evernote, Wunderlist, Slack and many more. Not all the tools are free and an in-app purchase is required for some. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) turns scans into text. There are optional tools to adjust the colour, make it black and white, crop it some more, and rotate it. The document is automatically cropped to remove the background and straightened. A great feature of the app is that it tells you what to do, such as move closer, up a bit, down a bit and when it is just right, it automatically takes the photo. Start Scanbot and it turns on the iPhone camera and starts searching the image looking for documents to scan.

Price: Free | By: doo GMBH | iOS: 9 and up | Size: 127MB Scanbot 6 - PDF Document & QR Code Scanner However, if you need advanced editing, cloud storage and other features, you need to upgrade.

If your needs are straightforward and you just want to scan and save the PDF, you don't need to pay. However, there are Pro or Premium features in all of them that can be unlocked with a payment.

Most iPhone scanner apps are free, at least for the basic features. There are more than a dozen apps in the iOS App Store that offer scanning facilities, so which ones are the best? The ones featured here are among the most popular and all are useful tools. In these cases you can turn your iPhone into a scanner and save to PDF files. Scanners are available for your computer, but sometimes you aren't in the office or at home and you need to save a document, receipt or other printed item.
