Flatbed scanning is a lot easier than it used to be. The combination of all-in-one hardware devices with wireless capabilities, and under-the-hood improvements in Mac OS X have simplified the scanning ...

Since I started using a document scanner about seven years ago, I’ve scanned many thousands of pages and used OCR (optical character recognition) software to convert those scans into searchable PDFs.

Image Capture is Apple’s built-in scanning utility that ships with every Mac. It connects to virtually any USB or network scanner without requiring manufacturer bloatware, supports resolution up to ...