While standalone scanners do exist, a lot of the best printers also include the ability to quickly and easily scan documents into your Windows PC or Mac (and sometimes even onto an iPhone or iPad).
Windows will save your file in PDF format. If you do not find this option, it might be disabled on your system by mistake. To verify this, Open Start > Settings > Devices > Printers & Scanners.
PDF Candy is the rare free PDF editor that offers a lot of the features you’d typically have to pay for. We’re talking scanning, multiple file-conversion options, and OCR functionality.
The scan will then run. You may see a black screen with circular animation at times, and within 15 minutes, you will be booted to your desktop. In my case, the scan took around 5 minutes.
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