As a lifelong paper hoarder and educator, Camscanner has pretty much saved me from drowning in binders and file folders. I have the paid version, and it’s easily one of the most useful subscriptions I’ve invested in.I’ve used it to digitize years’ worth of AP conference notebooks and materials, which are now neatly organized and available to my campus teachers in digital format. Instead of digging through boxes or tracking down a binder, I can just scan, upload, and share a link. My colleagues can freely and easily access everything they need from anywhere.My favorite feature is the ability to pull text out of handwritten notes. I take a quick scan, let Camscanner work its magic, and suddenly my scribbles become searchable, editable text I can drop into emails, docs, or slides. For someone who still loves writing by hand but wants the convenience of digital, that’s huge.Camscanner has turned piles of paper into a clean, searchable digital library. If you’re someone who lives in notebooks, prints everything, or wants a simple way to share materials with others, the paid account is absolutely worth it.

This app rocks. It is a tad bit pushy on trying to get you to pay to unlock additional features, but overall the amount of capability it provides out if the box, free, is excellent. Before, I was taking pictures via phone camera app of all my documents and then painstakingly uploading to my computer, reducing image sizes, and grouping pictures into pdfs — and still the end result pdf file sizes were frustratingly large and the quality subpar. With this app, I can easily batch scan each document into its own collection, it automatically identifies the document portion within the image and crops to it, applies a filter that tremendously enhances readability, and then offers several export options at which point I choose to airdrop as pdf to my Mac pc. And the resulting pdf is a reasonable size. I’d highly recommend giving this app a try for your scanning needs, it’s free. The one downside is without paying you get a watermark at the bottom right of the doc, but personally that doesn’t bother me too much.

I am a high school student and our teacher wanted us to upload PDF files. She didn’t care how we did it but that’s how she wanted them, well you can do it in the notes app on an iPhone but that was super difficult to use also was a pain to be about to submit the pdf after since everything was on the phone. I tired a few other PDF apps on my phone but none seemed to work well at all or they needed you to pay to actually use it. Well eventually I tried this one which was the best by far. I didn’t even decide to keep going because this app is the best at making PDF files from photos or just the camera. That selling point for me was after I scanned my documents I was able to upload them directly to my assignment on canvas without leaving the app. I plan on buying the full version when I am able to so I don’t have to pay a subscription fee

I think this is my first ever legitimate review on the App Store and I have to say. Whoever or whatever brought you to this app it is worth it. Let me list why--As an educator and college student this app is invaluable. Homework that needs to be scanned or an assignment that needs to be uploaded this scanner makes the process simple and it looks better than the scanners at some schools. -The app can change the lighting on objects to make dim lighting room photographs of documents to make them actually legible. -The app has ways of converting images to text so it can be more readable to you or anyone else.-It saves all previous scans so if you lost track of the important document you can always go back to the app to find it.-You are able to send PDFs of the document you photographed thru the app so that you do not have to go through the hassle of going to your email and then attaching the document yourself. It’s a small detail, saving a few minutes that they did not have to add but it is such a huge quality of life thing. It does have ads but frankly for this kind of service I’m okay with them making a few cents in ad revenue for the service they provide. So whatever reason you are reading this review I can assure you the app is worth it if you are looking for a document scanning app.