In iOS 11, the Notes app really wants to become the go-to place for you to dump all your ideas, all your snippets, and all your, uh, PDF scans. New in iOS 11 is the ability to scan a sheet of paper ...

In this guide we’ll explain how to setup and use the Galaxy Note 8 fingerprint scanner. Samsung’s new phone has a biometric Iris eye scanner, facial recognition and more, but most will stick to the ...

New gadgets are the best. We especially love ‘em when they find cool, inventive ways of bridging the divide between the old school physical world and the new frontier digital landscape. And is there ...

iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 were released to the public last week, and one new change is the addition of a "Scan Text" shortcut for quickly scanning printed or handwritten text into the Notes app on the ...

Now that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is available again following a short recall, millions of users are enjoying the phone. However, it’s not perfect and some owners have been experiencing Galaxy Note 7 ...

Apple's Notes app now includes a scanning feature that utilizes the iPhone's advanced camera capabilities to capture high-quality images of both printed and handwritten notes. This feature supports ...

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A document scanner app allows you to scan, edit, and save documents in digital format easily without needing a physical scanner. A few apps offer advanced features like OCR, which helps you copy text ...

That an upcoming Samsung flagship smartphone is rumored to have an iris scanner isn't exactly new. Those rumors have been circulating as far back as 2013, but never really came to pass in the 2015 ...

Certainly, the big news so far this week has been the launch of the new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone from Samsung, which we spent some hands-on time with. This device was long rumored and a slew of those ...

Quick Response codes or QR codes are a type of barcodes that comprise a matrix of dots. To read these unique codes, a QR code scanner is needed. QR scanners are typically embedded in modern ...