The Adobe badge guarantees a certain level of quality, and we're impressed by the intuitiveness and the scope of Adobe Acrobat DC. Documents can be edited right on the screen just seconds after scanning them in. If you do decide to pay up for the Pro version of Adobe Acrobat DC, you get all the OCR basics plus the ability to add comments and feedback on documents, a specialized tool for scanning tables, the option to quickly compare two documents together, and much more.

Of course there's also slick and seamless integration with everything else Adobe makes, so you might consider this if you already use a lot of other Adobe apps like Photoshop. That DC stands for 'Document Cloud' by the way, and everything integrates rather neatly with Adobe's cloud solution, should you need to get at your files from any computer. Want to go with a well-known brand name you can trust, with all of the OCR features you could need? Adobe Acrobat DC Pro fits the bill, and brings along with it an impressive list of options, even if the price is a little steeper than some of its rivals. The result is an easier document management (opens in new tab) strategy, with the ability to use online storage (have a look at some of the best cloud storage providers we've found) or specialist cloud document storage (opens in new tab) providers in order to archive important documentation in an accessible as well as retrievable way. The latter is so important when actually trying to search through scanned documents, as poorly formatted scans means the whole process has to be repeated, with the inevitable labor wastage in relocating the documents to scan in the first place, presuming they haven't already been recycled.

These is especially as modern OCR scanning software (opens in new tab) is much more capable these days of working fast, seamlessly, and accurately. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software offers you the ability to use document scanning (opens in new tab) of scan invoices, text, and other files into digital formats - especially PDF - in order to make it easier to manage all paperwork.

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