Create Adobe PDFs with your phone’s camera using Scan

Adobe‘s making it easier to create Adobe PDFs with their new Adobe Scan mobile app. This application integrates with various Adobe applications to give you seamless PDF creation, editing, and sharing across your devices.

Adobe Scan is a free application that you can download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. With this application, you can use your smartphone camera to scan, capture and convert physical documents into Adobe PDFs which you can edit and share.

Scan uses Adobe’s optical character recognition (OCR) software to identify text in an image and detect whether it’s a document or not. When you launch Scan, all you need to do is hold it over a document and the app will automatically detect potential documents and captures them so you don’t even have to hit the shutter.

After that, you can edit the scans and save them as a PDF. Scan can integrate with Adobe Document Cloud so each saved PDF is automatically saved to your Document Cloud. It also works with Adobe Sign.

Of course, scanning documents and converting them to PDFs is not particularly new. You’ve got applications like CamScanner, for example, which also give you about the same amount of functionality as this.