5 APPS TO USE ...
The Government of India on Monday banned 59 applications, most of them popular Chinese applications such as TikTok, Shareit ,Mi Video Call,Club Factory and Cam Scanner, citing threat to national security and sovereignty.
Among the list is Cam Scanner, a widely used app for scanning documents. Apart from letting users scan documents or photos using their smartphone camera, the app also lets users archive their digital copies in a safe location.It seems that the app is currently functional so we advise you to offload your important documents before the service is completely blocked.So what alternatives do you have? Well, there are plenty to choose from with some offering similar results as Cam Scanner itself.
ADOBE SCAN- THE FREE DOCUMENT scanning app from Adobe, with integrated OCR technology to instantly recognize printed text and handwriting. Use this mobile document scanner to turn anything — receipts, notes, documents, photos, business cards, whiteboards — into an Adobe PDF with content you can reuse from each PDF and photo scan.
Microsoft Office Lens- Microsoft’s Office Lens app is a very powerful tool. Apart from scanning different sorts of documents, it even lets you scan handwritten notes, whiteboards and diagrams, and more. The app also lets you convert images to PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files, and save to OneNote, OneDrive, or your local device. There is also support for OCR and auto-edge scanning.
Evernote- Evernote is a great app to organise your notes, memos and documents. The app comes with a built-in scanner as well so you can save your documents in a jiffy. The app also lets you save photos and articles from the web. Further, you can easily share your documents and the app also comes with OCR to recognise handwritten documents or notes.
Photoscan- This is primarily a photo scanning app by Google, so don’t expect high-end tools for scanning documents. However, when it comes to photos, it has the ability to scan photos while maintaining the details. Now since it is made by Google, it comes with powerful algorithms to auto-detects edges, takes high-quality pictures, and remove glare and blemishes, automatically.
Turbo Scan- TurboScan lets you do almost all the work Cam Scanner is capable of. The application features auto edge detection, multiple scanning, and more features along with a sharpening mode that created better scanned copies.