But with the quality of character-recognition software and cell-phone cameras steadily improving, mobile phones are being turned into data-entry devices.

The solution for all these predicaments is Scanner Pro ($4.99), which turns your iPhone into a mobile scanner that connects to everything from Dropbox to Evernote to MobileMe.

Microsoft is telling users to head to Microsoft 365 Copilot for their mobile scanning needs, though it lacks many of Microsoft Lens’s handy features and ecosystem integrations.

While you might have chosen to receive bank and credit card statements online and shareholder notifications from your broker via email, your paper piles keep getting bigger with other documents—h ...

Scanner Pro generally returned sharper images than Scannable, but in head-to-head tests, I give a slight edge to TurboScan. Without manual adjustment, TurboScan images seemed a bit clearer and bolder.