Study guide: CamScanner Features and Functions

📋 Course Outline

1. Document Scanning and Digitization
2. Image Enhancement
3. Exporting and Sharing Scans
4. Optical Character Recognition

📖 1. Document Scanning and Digitization

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• CamScanner: A mobile application that uses a smartphone camera to scan physical documents and turn them into digital files.
• Mobile Scanner App: An application that uses a smartphone or tablet camera to capture document images and process them into digital files.

📝 Essential Points

• Examples of physical documents it can digitize include:
  • receipts
  • notes
  • whiteboards

💡 Memory Hook

A smartphone camera becomes a pocket-sized document scanner.

📖 2. Image Enhancement

📝 Essential Points

• CamScanner can automatically crop, enhance, and sharpen scanned images to improve their clarity and readability.

📖 3. Exporting and Sharing Scans

★ Must-know

• CamScanner typically allows scanned documents to be saved as PDF or JPEG files.

Further detail

• Scanned documents can be shared through:
  • email
  • cloud storage services such as Google Drive
  • cloud storage services such as Dropbox
  • other apps

📖 4. Optical Character Recognition

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Optical Character Recognition: Technology that converts document images, including scans and digital-camera images, into editable and searchable data.

📝 Essential Points

• Many versions of CamScanner offer OCR, which can extract text from scanned images.