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Your smartphone is full of surprises. There's an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

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On iPhone, open the saved QR code in Photos and tap and hold it. On Android, open it in Google Photos and tap Search to scan ...

Flatbed scanners used to be office essentials. Now, your phone can handle contracts to passports without taking up desk space.

A document scanner app allows you to scan, edit, and save documents in digital format easily without needing a physical scanner. A few apps offer advanced features like OCR, which helps you copy text ...

QR codes are easy to use, if you know how to access the information they contain and have an internet connection. QR or Quick Response codes are one of the most popular ways to access information on ...

Your smartphone is full of surprises. There’s an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

It's not perfect, and that's the point ...

Two-dimensional barcodes called Quick Response codes, or QR codes for short, are used to store data that devices can read. While QR codes are popularly scanned via smartphones, what if you want to ...