Desk, ergonomic chair, lamp... You’ve got everything needed for your home office. Then you realise that you’re missing a scanner. Before you break out the bank card, try the pocket-size CamScanner that fits right on your iPhone.

What we love: CamScanner makes use of your iPhone’s camera to scan documents, pages or images. Snap a photo of the document and the app will crop down to the size of the page, remove shadows or extract the text, making it easy to search or copy and paste later on. The app has a whole suite of other tools that enable you to add your own text, a digital signature, a watermark or a password lock for confidential documents.

Don’t miss: The app comes with 200 MB of free cloud storage, so you can access your scanned files from the web browser or other devices. If you need more, upgrade to a premium account and get 10 GB of storage, in addition to more premium features.

Meet the creator: CamScanner is developed by Chinese company Intsig, which specialises in OCR technology to scan image to text.