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Makes scanning and saving documents into the PDF format on your personal computer easy

Makes scanning and saving documents into the PDF format on your personal computer easy

Vote: (7 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: Nenad Hrg

Version: 8.22

Works under: Windows

Vote:

Program license

(7 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

Nenad Hrg

8.22

Works under:

Windows

Pros

  • Scans documents to PDF

Cons

  • Unnecessary if you have most standard scanner software

WinScan2PDF is a free scanning program for Windows PCs.

Scanners are more important for business and private life than ever before. Now that more places are accepting emailed files, it's become important to be able to digitize files on demand. This means getting rid of paper and, more importantly, figuring out a way to get your important information on your computer. For most, the easiest way is to buy a printer that has an included scanner. Most scanners do include the software necessary to make a PDF file, but you might want something more. If you're in such a state, you may want to consider the WinScan2PDF program.

As the name may suggest, this is a program that allows you to scan in documents and put them in the universally-used PDF format. This isn't a huge innovation, of course - most printers come with software that will allow you to do the same thing. This program does, at least, shore up those poorly created software packages that for some reason don't include PDF scanning. There's not a lot else that it does, of course, but that's fine. If you really need a stand-alone product to scan in documents as PDFs, this will do fine.

The only reason this product exists is because other products forget the necessity of being able to scan in documents as PDFs. While it's lovely to say that this product is unnecessary, the fact that it exists proves this not to be the case. If you want to make sure you are able to scan to PDF and you don't already have some other form of software to do it with, you'll like this program.

Pros

  • Scans documents to PDF

Cons

  • Unnecessary if you have most standard scanner software