Phone Scan !!!

I have been using Evernote on my phone for a few years now to store images of documents that I needed to archive, and it has great features to convert these into pdf documents and convert to text (OCR). Then I cam across an App called CamScan. This remained my favorite app and I considered it to be the most useful app I had on my phone. It did, and still does a wonderful job of converting captured images of documents into perfectly pdf files, by straightening the skewed images which is a result of phone camera not being perfectly parallel to the document being photographed. However, one limitation that bothered me was that it has a subscription based licensing model for full featured app, and at some point started adding an ink mark, rather a full colored logo on the scanned document which sort of was a way to (Ahem!) force  people to go for the paid subscription. In mu quest to find an equally good free app, I started searching around the app Market Place and found quite a few similar products with a wide range of good to bad reviews. And then by chance I came across an app that pretty much every smart phone (Android) comes pre-installed with, and other platforms (iOS and Windows) also had access to it. This is the Google Drive, when you click on the New icon (a plus sign inside a circle) in the lower right corner from within the Google Drive app, you get the options to create Folders, Google Docs/Slides/Sheets and Upload. Nestled besides these options is the option for Scan. Selecting the scan option open ups your camera and you can take a photo of your document which will be auto-corrected (unskewed, brightened and rotated) as a pdf document. You can save it or redo if the results are not to your liking. Also, you can add more pages to the same file if needed. Make sure you rename the file and select the correct location to save to. Not to be left out, Microsoft added similar feature to its OneDrive app. I will write a more detailed review of the three apps (CamScan, GoogleDrive Scan and OneDrive Scan) or will ask my sons to do that for me and post them here :).

OneDrive Scan

Google Drive Scan

CamScan