At a glance
Adobe Scan is Adobe's free scanner app for iPhone and Android. It captures documents, receipts, business cards and whiteboards, cleans up the image, runs text recognition and saves a searchable PDF to Adobe Document Cloud, where Acrobat can open, sign and share it.
Best for
People and teams who scan receipts to claim, approve or book them as expenses.
Where it's stronger
Best for
People already working in Acrobat who want any paper turned into a searchable PDF.
Where it's stronger
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Side by side
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Text recognition on the scan
Receipt fields turned into an expense
Business cards, whiteboards and forms
Emailed receipts collected
Expense reports and approvals
Fill, sign and share in Acrobat
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
Contracts and forms stay with Adobe. Only receipts move.
Drop receipt PDFs from Document Cloud into Smartbills, and each one is read.
Photograph receipts in Smartbills, singly or in a batch from your camera roll.
Add receipts to an expense report, or sync them to your books once approved.
FAQ
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Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Adobe Scan.
Genius Scan turns paper into clean PDFs. Smartbills turns a receipt into an expense: merchant, items, taxes and total, ready for approval and your books.
Read the comparisonCamScanner scans, converts and edits documents of every kind. Smartbills reads receipts into expenses and keeps them ready for approval and your books.
Read the comparisonSmart Receipts turns photographed receipts into PDF and CSV expense reports. Smartbills reads them too, finds the ones in your email and syncs everything to your books.
Read the comparisonForeceipt scans receipts and builds PDF or Excel reports for tax time. Smartbills reads every item and tax, checks your mailbox itself and syncs to your books.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Capture receipts with your iPhone or Android. Smartbills extracts merchant details, dates, line items and taxes.
Expense report software that attaches the receipts for you, works out mileage, routes the approval and shows each employee when they'll be paid back.
The Smartbills receipt wallet for everything you buy: itemized receipts, email receipts you upload, and photos of the paper ones.
Get started
Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions, and we'll show you the capture rate on both sides instead of a slide deck.
