<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Available for iOS and Android, the app offers all the extras of other scanning apps minus the limitations and fees.</span></div><div><div><div class="metadata singleline" style="-webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-top: -0.7em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; line-height: 1.6em; max-width: 100%;"><time class="date" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; display: inline !important; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">June 1, 2017 7:34 AM PDT</time></div><div style="max-width: 100%;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><div data-component="page" data-page-options="{"allowAds":true,"browserTitle":"Adobe Scan app creates searchable, editable PDFs for free","browserUrl":"\/news\/adobe-scan-app-creates-searchable-editable-pdfs-for-free\/","initialPage":true,"trackingEventData":[],"trackPageChange":true}" style="max-width: 100%;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><article style="max-width: 100%;"><section section="show_comments_top" style="max-width: 100%;"><figure style="margin: 1.4em 0px; max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://cnet3.cbsistatic.com/img/OjtPwHbJT5WOe0gcZ-wM37v3n2s=/510x383/2017/06/01/b85c64ab-5015-4f2c-9070-6fb3fbf2caac/adobe-scan-app.jpg" alt="" height="383" width="510" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto; width: 375px; -webkit-margin-start: -18px;"></span><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adobe</span></p></figure></section><section section="author" style="max-width: 100%;"><div section="author_headshot" style="max-width: 100%;"><figure style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%; margin: 1.4em 0px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><a href="safari-reader://www.cnet.com/profiles/joshua.goldman/" aria-hidden="true" rel="author" data-s-object-id="author;author_headshot" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;"><img src="https://cnet1.cbsistatic.com/img/QPIq4lu8J1YQYbkw7JQOhHy5w44=/70x70/2012/12/05/711083dd-8ae8-11e2-9400-029118418759/Joshua_Goldman.jpg" alt="Joshua Goldman mugshot" height="70" width="70" class="" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto;"></a></font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adobe's new mobile scanning app ups the ante on competitors</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); max-width: 100%;">and</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">does away with paid subscriptions and upgrades. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Called Scan, the free app for iOS and Android converts printed text into a PDF simply by snapping a picture of it. That's</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span section="shortcodeLink" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); max-width: 100%;"><a href="safari-reader://www.cnet.com/news/best-scanning-apps-for-android-and-iphone/" data-s-object-id="shortcodeLink" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">not unusual for scanning apps</a></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">, but Adobe's including optical character recognition (OCR) for free. </span></figure></div></section><div data-sharebar-waypoint="null" class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><div data-use-autolinker="true" data-autolinker-pub="2017-06-01 14:13:33" data-component="lazyloadImages" style="max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That means once your image is converted to digital text, you'll have a document you can search, edit, highlight, comment on, sign and share. Adobe says it can do multipage documents too, and there are no limitations or watermarks to get in your way. </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When scans are converted to PDFs they're stored in Adobe's Document Cloud and you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read them. So yes, you'll need to sign up for a Cloud account and install Reader, but those are free as well. </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/mobile-app/scan-documents.html" target="_blank" data-s-object-id="page-adobe-scan-app-creates-searchable-editable-pdfs-for-free;article-body" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Adobe Scan is available to download now</a>. </span></font></p></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div></div></div></div></body></html>