We tested out the best OCR software for scanning your paper documents and archiving them as digital PDF files. Staggeringly useful, then - but with so many different apps and programs out there ...

With auto-capture & edge detection, SwiftScan makes scanning effortless—just point your camera at a doc and snap a high-quality PDF or JPG.

Open your document in Acrobat (available on macOS and Windows), go to Tools > Scan & OCR > Recognize Text. Once the text has been catalogued, go to Tools > Export PDF and export as an Excel file.