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Scan text and documents in Preview on iPhone

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Apple's Preview app on iPhone, which opens, scans and edits pages of PDFs.

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It answers 2 questions

  1. Which PDF reader app should I use on a phone or laptop?
  2. Which app should I use to scan documents on my phone?

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  2. What Preview, the Mac's built-in reader, does with forms and signatures. support.apple.com Article Fill out and sign PDF forms in Preview on Mac Apple Support
  3. The free reader for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android: view, comment, highlight, fill forms and sign without a subscription; text... adobe.com Tool Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe
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  5. Apple's steps for scanning a document into a note, with automatic capture when the page edges are detected. support.apple.com Article Scan text and documents in Notes using the iPhone camera Apple Support
  6. Google's steps for scanning receipts, letters and statements in the Drive app and saving them as searchable PDFs. support.google.com Article Scan documents with Google Drive (Android) Google Drive Help
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