At a glance
CamScanner is a document scanner and PDF toolkit from INTSIG, on iPhone, Android, HarmonyOS, Mac, Windows and the web. It scans and cleans up pages, recognizes text in 41 languages, converts between PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and adds signatures and watermarks. The free version has ads and limits that the Premium plan removes.
Best for
People and businesses who scan receipts to track and claim expenses.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Students and office workers who scan, convert and edit all kinds of documents.
Where it's stronger
Every comparison on this site names what the other product does better. If we couldn't think of anything, we didn't publish the page.
Side by side
These are structural differences, not plan checkboxes. Capabilities change, so check the vendor's own documentation before deciding on any single row.
Scanning and image cleanup
Receipt fields turned into an expense
Converting PDFs to Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Emailed receipts collected
Expense reports and approvals
Desktop apps for Mac and Windows
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
Notes, IDs and contracts can stay. Receipts move.
Smartbills reads receipt images and PDFs you already have.
Each photo becomes an expense, with the image kept as the record.
Put receipts on an expense report, or sync approved ones to your accounting software.
FAQ
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Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside CamScanner.
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 comparisonAdobe Scan turns receipts into searchable PDFs in Adobe's cloud. Smartbills turns them into expenses, with items, taxes and totals read for you.
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.
The Smartbills receipt wallet for everything you buy: itemized receipts, email receipts you upload, and photos of the paper ones.
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.
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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.
