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You may have a flatbed scanner at home or perhaps one of those “all-in-one” printer/scanner/copier machines, but did you know your smartphone’s camera can also double as a flatbed scanner? It’s not ...

With OCR (optical character recognition) technology, all your scanned text is searchable, making it easy to find your documents.

Live Text is one of our favorite new features in iOS 15. It allows you to select and copy text found in almost any image in your Photos app, or directly in the Camera app. Signs, documents, labels… as ...

Vormor is a professional handheld translation device that supports scanning & voice translation for 112 languages. Launch via Kickstarter this month. The Vormor tech scanner and real-time voice ...

The Notes app hides many secrets (and we’re not only talking about nudes). It’s filled with little-known features like tags, not to mention a literal secret chatting system. One of its best hidden ...

iPhones are multifunctional devices. The cell phone whose primary purpose was for calling and texting is no longer. Apple smartphone lovers use their devices for scrolling social media, online ...

Gboard for Android is beginning to roll out a rather nifty “Scan Text” optical character recognition (OCR) tool. Scan Text appears in the grid of Gboard capabilities and can be dragged to the toolbar ...

iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 were released to the public last week, and one new change is the addition of a "Scan Text" shortcut for quickly scanning printed or handwritten text into the Notes app on the ...