How To Turn your Android Into A Portable Scanner

Today being a weekend, I am going to share something interesting which will be very beneficial to most of us. I want you to meet the App named Camscanner.and Office lens i was busy on weekend  for all the time sending some documents to different peoples and organization because i am working in cyber cafe and we normally doe's t came  on Sunday because its weekend we need some rest. Guess what, it is an Android app which manages to offer the feature of Optical Character Recognition in your Smartphone, in other words, it scans the images with the help of your Phone camera and it creates the TXT file of the scanned images. In short, it acts as a portable scanner.

Here Are The Steps How to use Camscanner As a Portable scanner for your Phone

There are few easy steps which you must follow if you want to convert your Android smartphone into a portable scanner. But let me clear you one thing, first it is a third party app, but there is no risk of your privacy being broken because this app is from trusted developers of Android. Follow the Steps clearly.

1. USING OFFICE LENS 

Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Like magic, it will digitize notes on whiteboards or blackboards. Always find important documents or business cards. Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later. Don’t lose receipts or stray sticky notes again! Let’s know how to use it.
                                                              

Step 1. To Scan a file,First Of all, you need to download Office Lens from Google Play store and install it on your Android device.

Step 2. After you successfully downloaded and installed the Office lens app,Now you will see the welcome screen of Office lens where you will be given a short tutorial on how to use it.

Step 3. Now you will see the camera opens up. You just need to focus on the image that you want to scan and simply click the image.

Step 4. That’s it once done, simply tap on “Save” and choose your desired format. Your scanned documents will only get saved on your Microsoft account.

Key Features Of Office Lens

- With Whiteboard mode, Office Lens trims and cleans up glare and shadows.
- With Document mode, Office Lens trims and colors images perfectly.
- The scanned picture can be saved to your choice of OneNote, OneDrive, or locally on the device.
- Business Card mode can extract contact information and save it into your address book and OneNote. This feature works best with the following business cards: English, German, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. Support for more languages is coming soon.
- Choose to convert images to Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), or PDF (.pdf) files that are automatically saved to OneDrive.

2.USING CAMSCANNER 

Step 1. Before installing Camscanner in your Android Smartphone, first Reboot your phone and then install Camscanner by clicking HERE. Once installed Launch the app in your Android handset.

Step 2. After you successfully downloaded and installed the Camscanner app,Now you will be redirected toward the Login/Register Screen. Register if you are not registered and in case if you already registered simply login with your User Id and Password. This is a paid app. But Camscanner is giving away the 30 days free service for new users.

Step 3. If you completed the registration part, Camscanner will be ready to use, you can see the camera icon on the downside of your display and you need to take your camera closer to document in order to focus the words.

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Step 4. After the camera is adjusted, you need to click on Tick option that is on a right side (down) of the app. It will automatically start scanning and saving your document in TXT or PDF formats. All done.

Now you can easily transfer your scanned files to your computer by locating its destined folder.

What You Can Dom With CamScanner

Finally believe me you can do many with CamScanner

Simple Features of CamScanner
Mobile Scanner
Use your phone camera to scan receipts, notes, invoices, whiteboard discussions, business cards, certificates, etc.
Optimize Scan Quality
Smart cropping and auto enhancing make the texts and graphics look clear and sharp
Quick Search
By entering any keyword, you’ll see a list of docs with the word in their titles, notes or images (Registrants only)
Extract Texts from Image
OCR (optical character recognition) extracts texts inside single page for further editing or .txt sharing. (Licensed only)
Share PDF/JPEG Files
Easily share docs in PDF or JPEG format with others via social media, email attachment or sending the doc link
Print & Fax
Instantly print out docs in CamScanner with nearby printer; directly fax docs to over 30 countries right from the app
Collaboration
Invite friends or colleagues to view and comment on your scans in a group. (Registrants only)
Advanced Editing
Making annotations or adding customized watermark on docs are made available for you
Secure Important Docs
Set passcode for viewing important docs; meanwhile, when sending doc link, you can set password to protect it
Sync across Platforms
Sign up to sync documents on the go. Just sign in to any smartphone, tablet or computer (visit www.camscanner.com) you own and you can view, edit and share any document. (Registrants only)

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Premium Subscription Features ($ 4.99/month or $49.99/year):
1. Edit OCR results and notes of the entire doc, exporting as .txt file
2. Create Doc Collage for multiple pages
3. Add 10G cloud space
4. Add 40 extra collaborators
5. Send doc link with password protection and expiration date
6. Auto upload docs to Box, Google Drive, Dropbox , Evernote and OneDrive
7. Batch download PDF files in web app (www.camscanner.com)
8. Every benefit registrants enjoys
9. Everything paid app offers
Please note the subscription is automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you choose to cancel the subscription.
CamScanner users scan and manage
-Bill, Invoice, Contract, Tax Roll, Business Card…
-Whiteboard, Memo, Script, Letter…
-Blackboard, Note, PPT, Book, Article…
-Credential, Certificate, Identity Documents…
3rd Party Cloud Storage Services Supported:
-Box, Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, OneDrive.

So, the above discussion/article is all about  to How To Turn Your Android Into A Portable Scanner

that we are aware of and it is very easy trick, I am sure this article might help you in some time. Camscanner is a paid version app, and to download  paid app here is simple method but it is providing 30 days free to use trial period whereas Office Lens is a free app. I am sure you will be downloading this app right now and making full use of it. Share this post with your friends too.