We tested out the best OCR software for scanning your paper documents and archiving them as digital PDF files. Staggeringly useful, then - but with so many different apps and programs out there ...

With auto-capture & edge detection, SwiftScan makes scanning effortless—just point your camera at a doc and snap a high-quality PDF or JPG.

The OCR functionality is also free and works ... than any other app on this list (Adobe scan tops for best PDF Quality). Scanner Pro offers nifty features that are very helpful when scanning ...

Open your document in Acrobat (available on macOS and Windows), go to Tools > Scan & OCR > Recognize Text. Once the text has been catalogued, go to Tools > Export PDF and export as an Excel file.