Your smartphone just became a scanner.

With OCR (optical character recognition) technology, all your scanned text is searchable, making it easy to find your documents.

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TL;DR: Hate having to go into the office just to scan something? Bring a scanner anywhere by adding SwiftScan to your phone, now $41.99 (reg. $199) with code TAKE30. You're probably on the go more ...

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