Adobe Acrobat Reader includes free mobile scanning

With the new scanning component baked directly into the Reader mobile app, users now have the ability to snap a picture of anything and turn that ‘scan’ into a signable, shareable, storable and secure PDF – all for free, Adobe said in a press statement.
Adobe said more than 300 million people use the free Acrobat Reader mobile app today to view, annotate, send and save PDFs at home and in the office. 
It said the Scan function lets anyone digitize anything – from shopping receipts and tax documents to school permission slips and favorite recipes.
At work, Scan is an enterprise-ready tool for converting paper documents, forms, contracts, business cards and even those whiteboard snapshots into PDFs that can be incorporated into existing digital workflows, Adobe said.
Scan functionality in Reader mobile is powered by Adobe Sensei, a new framework and set of intelligence services built into Document Cloud, Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud to dramatically improve customer experiences, Adobe explained.
In Document Cloud, Adobe Sensei utilizes artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning to automate repetitive tasks, boost productivity and pave the way for the workplace of the future. In the case of Scan in Reader mobile, Adobe Sensei works in the background to automatically detect document boundaries, correct perspectives, enhance text sharpness and make everything beautiful, usable and digital, Adobe said.
Adobe said it processes tens of billions of PDFs through Document Cloud and Adobe Sensei could impact the future of work.  Imagine if you could:
Analyze all PDFs in your organization, identify patterns and extract knowledge
Automatically summarize thousands of PDFs, like document Cliff’s Notes
Apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze and categorize the content of your documents as they’re scanned from paper to digital
Interact with document content in a virtual reality environment, from anywhere