Alternatives
Adobe Scan alternatives
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.
Why people look
Why teams look for a Adobe Scan alternative
The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.
The PDF is searchable, but my expense report still needs the numbers typed in.
Smartbills fills in the expense from the receipt: merchant, date, items, each tax and the total.
Receipts sit in the same cloud folder as every other scan.
Receipts have their own home, sorted by store, category and date, and they're searchable by item.
Getting a receipt from Acrobat to my accountant is a download and an email.
Approved expenses sync to your accounting software with the receipt attached.
The shortlist
6 alternatives to Adobe Scan
The products teams shortlist against Adobe Scan, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.
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Genius 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.
Best forAnyone who needs a fast, private scanner for contracts, forms, letters and receipts alike.
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CamScanner
CamScanner scans, converts and edits documents of every kind. Smartbills reads receipts into expenses and keeps them ready for approval and your books.
Best forStudents and office workers who scan, convert and edit all kinds of documents.
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Smart Receipts
Smart 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.
Best forIndividuals, field crews and small teams who mostly need receipts turned into a PDF or CSV expense report.
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Foreceipt
Foreceipt 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.
Best forSelf-employed people who want a simple receipt log and a tax-time report at a low monthly price.
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Dext
Dext collects the receipts and invoices your accounting practice is sent. Smartbills gets the receipt from the merchant at the moment you pay.
Best forAccounting practices collecting documents from many clients at once, who need client reminders and publishing built in.
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Hubdoc
Hubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.
Best forXero users whose only need is getting bills and receipts into Xero at no extra cost.
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Disclosure
And Smartbills, which is ours
Slipping our own product into a roundup without saying so is exactly what makes these pages worthless, so to be clear, this one is ours.
Smartbills
Best for: People and teams who scan receipts to claim, approve or book them as expenses.
Smartbills vs Adobe ScanHow this list was put together
These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Adobe Scan, drawn from what prospects actually shortlist against it and from the rest of its category. The order is editorial rather than a ranking, because we don't run benchmarks on products we don't operate, and a scored table written by a vendor about its competitors isn't evidence. Each entry links to a full comparison with claims specific enough to check.
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Comparing Adobe Scan with something else?
Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions. The number that settles it is the share of transactions that ended up with an itemized document attached, and you can measure that in one cycle.