Mobile applications have made our lives significantly more productive, be it collaboration applications, cloud storage applications, individual assistant applications and some more. These applications have made our life and work a lot easier. For example, scanning documents utilized to be such a hassle in our yesteryear however not anymore, all thanks to scanner applications. Need to check a document, receipt, business card or extract texts from scans? These scanner applications let you do all of that and then some more.

If you have been wondering whether these scanner applications can match the quality of a real scanner, they cannot but they have gotten very close indeed. We were sceptical at first but after utilizing some scanner applications on Android, we are satisfied to say, they work great and the quality of scans is certainly good sufficient. There are a ton of scanner applications on Google Play Store and we attempted a ton of them and found the best ones for you.

Here are the Best Scanner Apps for Android:

CamScanner

CamScanner

There are no astonishment here, as CamScanner is certainly the best scanner application on Android and other platforms too. CamScanner gives you to scan documents, receipts, business cards, notes on whiteboard, contracts or paperwork, certificates, ID cards and some more. It gives the capability to enhance scans, annotate them, extract texts from images and collaborate with others. Since the application is accessible on all major platforms including iOS and Windows Phone, there’s ability to synchronize documents on various platforms. There’s also a cool Search feature, that gives you to search for invoices and receipts from the past.

CamScanner additionally supports numerous cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Evernote and OneDrive. It has a free version but the full version of CamScanner brings higher quality scans, no advertisements or watermark and capability to alter OCR results.

Download CamScanner (Free version / Full Version $1.99)

Compatibility: Android 2.3 and up, iOS, Windows Phone.

ScanBot

ScanBot

ScanBot gives you to scan documents in premium quality with 200+ dpi, which is the norm for desktop scanners. It gives you to scan almost anything including documents, business cards, invoice or receipts, tickets, whiteboard notes and some more. Once you scan something, you can even sign it or annotate it. You can save the images to Dropbox, Box, Evernote, Google Drive, OneDrive and effortlessly share them. The application also includes a cool search feature.

ScanBot is accessible in a free as well as pro version, which gives a “Smart names” feature that saves various scans with various specific names, so that they are easy to discover. The pro version also gives themes for the application alongside text extraction.

Download ScanBot (Free with in-app purchase for Pro version)

Compatibility: Android 4.0.3 and up, iOS.

Genius Scan

Genius Scan

Genius Scan gives some cool technology like smart page detection, perspective correction and numerous enhancements for high-quality scans. It supports various page layouts like A3, A4, A5, Legal, Letter and Business card. The application additionally includes capability to backup and restore scan data. It supports both PDF & JPG scans and you can do numerous scans too.

Genius Scan is accessible in a free as well as Plus version, which gives export choices to many cloud services like Box, Dropbox, OneDrive and some more. It also excludes advertisements from the application and lets you have a custom sign. The good thing about Genius scan is that all these features are packed in a great User Interface.

Download Genius Scan (Free, Plus Version $6.99)

Compatibility: Android, iOS, Windows.

Microsoft Office Lens

Microsoft Office Lens

Microsoft has a number of quality applications on Android and Office Lens is no different. The application is a simple scanner application that scans documents, whiteboard notes and business cards. Once you scan a document, the application clears whatever fudges might be there and also corrects angles. It lets you save the scans in PDF, Word or Powerpoint file formats and you can save them in OneDrive or OneNote.

The application also lets you extract texts from pictures and you can also search for texts in images. Microsoft Office Lens is totally free at the Play Store. So, if you need a decent scanner application for free, you should definitely give Office Lens a try.

Download Microsoft Office Lens (Free)

Compatibility: Android, iOS, Windows.

Mobile Doc Scanner

Mobile Doc Scanner comes in a Lite as well as a full version. It has a bunch of great features like Batch mode, which lets you scan documents rapidly, one after the other. The application has some cool gestures to navigate the application with easy. It comes with a new camera2 API, which claims to bring better and higher quality scans. There’s support for numerous page layouts like Executive, Tabloid, A3, A4, A5, B5, Business card, Envelope, Letter, Legal and some more.

MD Scanner, as some people call it also supports the popular cloud storage services to let you save your scan files with easy. The full version of the application removes advertisements & watermark and adds the capability to read PDF files, extract texts and some more

Download Mobile Doc Scanner (Lite, Full version $4.99)

Compatibility: Android 2.3 and up.