CamScanner

CamScanner captures documents, forms, slides and whiteboards into high quality PDFs using a mobile phone, with several capture modes intended to suit different subjects. The whiteboard and slide cases are the interesting ones because they are not documents at all and need different treatment from a page of paper.

Background removal and page flattening are the processing steps that separate a scan from a photograph. A page held in the hand curves, a whiteboard is shot at an angle, and correcting both is what makes the output readable rather than merely captured. Filters then adjust contrast so faded print or pencil becomes legible.

Work and study at home or on the go is how the vendor frames the audience, which is broad but accurate for this class of tool. The same capability serves a student photographing lecture slides and an employee filing an expense receipt, and neither has an alternative that is faster.

Pricing is not published on the site despite a pricing page existing, so cost has to be established directly or through the mobile application stores. For a consumer product with a subscription tier that is an odd gap, and anyone budgeting for team use should confirm the figure rather than assume the consumer rate applies.