John RoachOct 12, 2022
When designers at the toy company Mattel were asked recently to come up with a new Hot Wheels model car, they sought inspiration from DALL∙E 2, an AI system developed by OpenAI that creates custom images and art based on what people describe in plainspoken language.
Using the tool, designers can type in a prompt such as, “A scale model of a classic car” and DALL∙E 2 will generate an image of a toy vintage car, perhaps silver in color and with whitewall tires.
As a next step, the designer could erase the top of the car and then type, “Make it a convertible” and DALL∙E 2 will update the image of the car as a convertible. The designer can keep tweaking the design, asking DALL∙E 2 to try it in pink or blue, with the soft-top on, and on and on.
DALL∙E 2 is coming to Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, by invitation, allowing select Azure AI customers to generate custom images using text or images, the company announced today at Microsoft Ignite, a conference for developers and IT professionals.
The availability of DALL∙E 2 through Azure OpenAI Service provides customers such as Mattel cloud AI infrastructure that blends the cutting-edge innovation of text-to-image generation with the compliance, responsible AI guardrails and certifications that Azure offers, Microsoft says.
The Mattel designers were able to generate dozens of images, each iteration sparking and refining ideas that could help design a final fleshed-out rendering of a new Hot Wheels model car.
“It’s about going, ‘Oh, I didn’t think about that!’” said Carrie Buse, director of product design at Mattel Future Lab in El Segundo, California. She sees the AI technology as a tool to help designers generate more ideas. “Ultimately, quality is the most important thing,” she noted. “But sometimes quantity can help you find the quality.”
Microsoft is also integrating DALL∙E 2 into its consumer apps and services starting with the newly announced Microsoft Designer app, and it will soon be integrated into Image Creator in Microsoft Bing.
The rollout of DALL∙E 2 across Microsoft products and services reflects how the company’s investment in AI research is infusing AI into everything it builds, produces and delivers to help everyone boost productivity and innovation.
Over the last 18 months, we’ve seen this transition in technology from proving that you can do things with AI to mapping it to actual scenarios and processes where it’s useful to the end user.
The trend is the result of nonlinear breakthroughs in AI capabilities achieved by bringing more compute to more data to train richer and more powerful models, according to Eric Boyd, Microsoft corporate vice president for AI Platform.
“The power of the models has crossed this threshold of quality and now they’re useful in more applications,” he said. “The other trend that we’re seeing is all the product developers are thinking through and understanding the ways that they can use AI in their products for both ease of use as well as saying, ‘Oh, I can make my product work better if I use AI.’”
DALL∙E 2 was trained on a supercomputer hosted in Azure that Microsoft built exclusively for OpenAI. The same Azure supercomputer was also used to train OpenAI’s GPT-3 natural language models and Codex, the model that powers GitHub Copilot and certain features in Microsoft Power Apps that run on Azure OpenAI Service. Azure also makes it possible for these AI tools to rapidly generate image, text or code suggestions for a person to review and consider using.
The addition of DALL∙E 2 builds on Microsoft and OpenAI’s ongoing partnership and expands the breadth of use cases within Azure OpenAI Service, the newest in the Azure Cognitive Services family currently in preview, which offers the security, reliability, compliance, data privacy and other enterprise-grade capabilities built into Microsoft Azure.
Other AI technologies developed by Microsoft and available through Azure Cognitive Services such as language translation, speech transcription, optical character recognition and document summarization are showing up in products and services such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft 365.
“Over the last 18 months, we’ve seen this transition in technology from proving that you can do things with AI to mapping it to actual scenarios and processes where it’s useful to the end user,” said Charles Lamanna, Microsoft corporate vice president of business applications and platform. “It’s the productization of these very large language models.”
These AI capabilities are aimed at eliminating tedious work and enabling employees to focus on higher-value tasks, such as freeing sales associates to engage in conversations with customers without having to take notes, Lamanna said. These new tools can also automate processes that currently eat up hours of people’s workdays such as writing summaries of sales calls and adding them to a client database.
“We can now inject AI that listens to our conversation and helps people be more productive by creating transcripts, capturing action items, doing summarization of the meeting, identifying common phrases or doing analysis about, ‘Am I a good listener?’” said Lamanna. “That required the advancement of the state-of-the-art AI and the advancement of these digital collaboration tools.”
Lamanna is focused on creating tools that enable anyone with a computing device to create their own AI-powered applications using the Microsoft Power Platform. For example, his team is rolling out a feature in Power Automate with AI powered copilot capabilities that allow people to use natural language to build workflow processes that connect various services running in the Microsoft cloud.
“Users in normal language can say, ‘Hey, whenever I get an email from my boss, send a text message to my phone and put a to-do in my Outlook,’” Lamanna explained. “They can just say that, and it gets generated automatically.”
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This ability to turn a sentence into a workflow dramatically expands the number of people who can create AI-powered software solutions, he said. People with a touch more technical know-how can further customize and refine their applications with low-code tools and graphical interfaces available in the Power Platform such as the intelligent document processing technology in AI Builder, he added.
A lawyer could use this technology to build a customized application that is triggered whenever a new contract is uploaded to the firm’s SharePoint site. This app could extract key information such as who wrote the contract, the parties involved and the industry sector and then email a summary of the contract with these details to lawyers in the firm who cover the sector or clients.
“That’s kind of magic,” said Lamanna, contrasting this type of AI automated workflow to how such tasks are typically accomplished today. “You check the SharePoint site, open a new file, and skim and try to summarize it to see if you have to do anything with it. AI is getting people out of this monotony and getting computers to do what’s best for them to do anyway.”
The digital transformation of the past several years has added to the flood of content that people around the world produce. Microsoft customers, for example, now add about 1.6 billion pieces of content every day to Microsoft 365. Think marketing presentations, contracts, invoices and work orders along with video recordings and transcripts of Teams meetings.
“They’re creating documents, they’re collaborating on them in Teams and they are storing them in SharePoint-powered experiences,” said Jeff Teper, Microsoft president of collaborative apps and platform. “What we want to do is integrate AI technologies with this content so clients can do more structured activities like contract approvals, invoice management and regulatory filings.”
That’s why Microsoft created Microsoft Syntex, a new content AI offering for Microsoft 365 that leverages Azure Cognitive Services and other AI technologies to transform how content is created, processed and discovered. It reads, tags and indexes content – whether digital or paper – making it searchable and available within specific applications or as reusable knowledge. It can also manage the content lifecycle with security and retention settings.
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For instance, TaylorMade Golf Company turned to Microsoft Syntex for a comprehensive document management system to organize and secure emails, attachments and other documents for intellectual property and patent filings. At the time, company lawyers manually managed this content, spending hours filing and moving documents to be shared and processed later.
With Microsoft Syntex, these documents are automatically classified, tagged and filtered in a way that’s more secure and makes them easy to find through search instead of needing to dig through a traditional file and folder system. TaylorMade is also exploring ways to use Microsoft Syntex to automatically process orders, receipts and other transactional documents for the accounts payable and finance teams.
Other customers are using Microsoft Syntex for contract management and assembly, noted Teper. While every contract may have unique elements, they are constructed with common clauses around financial terms, change control, timeline and so forth. Rather than write those common clauses from scratch each time, people can use Syntex to assemble them from various documents and then introduce changes.
“They need AI and machine learning to spot, ‘Hey, this paragraph is very different from our standard terms. This could use some extra oversight,’” he said.
“If you’re trying to read a 100-page contract and look for the thing that’s significantly changed, that’s a lot of work versus the AI helping with that,” he added. “And then there’s the workflow around those contracts: Who approves them? Where are they stored? How do you find them later on? There’s a big part of this that’s metadata.”
The availability of DALL∙E 2 in Azure OpenAI Service has sparked a series of explorations at RTL Deutschland, Germany’s largest privately held cross-media company, about how to generate personalized images based on customers’ interests. For example, in RTL’s data, research and AI competence center, data scientists are testing various strategies to enhance the user experience by generative imagery.
RTL Deutschland’s streaming service RTL+ is expanding to offer on-demand access to millions of videos, music albums, podcasts, audiobooks and e-magazines. The platform relies heavily on images to grab people’s attention, said Marc Egger, senior vice president of data products and technology for the RTL data team.
“Even if you have the perfect recommendation, you still don’t know whether the user will click on it because the user is using visual cues to decide whether he or she is interested in consuming something. So artwork is really important, and you have to have the right artwork for the right person,” he said.
Imagine a romcom movie about a professional soccer player who gets transferred to Paris and falls in love with a French sportswriter. A sports fan might be more inclined to check out the movie if there’s an image of a soccer game. Someone who loves romance novels or travel might be more interested in an image of the couple kissing under the Eiffel Tower.
Combining the power of DALL∙E 2 and metadata about what kind of content a user has interacted with in the past offers the potential to offer personalized imagery on a previously inconceivable scale, Egger said.
“If you have millions of users and millions of assets, you have the problem that you simply can’t scale it – the workforce doesn’t exist,” he said. “You would never have enough graphic designers to create all the personalized images you want. So, this is an enabling technology for doing things you would not otherwise be able to do.”
Egger’s team is also considering how to use DALL∙E 2 in Azure OpenAI Service to create visuals for content that currently lacks imagery, such as podcast episodes and scenes in audiobooks. For instance, metadata from a podcast episode could be used to generate a unique image to accompany it, rather than repeating the same generic podcast image over and over.

Along similar lines, a person who is listening to an audiobook on their phone would typically look at the same book cover art for each chapter. DALL∙E 2 could be used to generate a unique image to accompany each scene in each chapter.
Using DALL∙E 2 through Azure OpenAI Service, Egger added, provides access to other Azure services and tools in one place, which allows his team to work efficiently and seamlessly. “As with all other software-as-a-service products, we can be sure that if we need massive amounts of imagery created by DALL∙E, we are not worried about having it online.”
No AI technology has elicited as much excitement as systems such as DALL∙E 2 that can generate images from natural language descriptions, according to Sarah Bird, a Microsoft principal group project manager for Azure AI.
“People love images, and for someone like me who is not visually artistic at all, I’m able to make something much more beautiful than I would ever be able to using other visual tools,” she said of DALL∙E 2. “It’s giving humans a new tool to express themselves creatively and communicate in compelling and fun and engaging ways.”
Her team focuses on the development of tools and techniques that guide people toward the appropriate and responsible use of AI tools such as DALL∙E 2 in Azure AI and that limit their use in ways that could cause harm.
To help prevent DALL∙E 2 from delivering inappropriate outputs in Azure OpenAI Service, OpenAI removed the most explicit sexual and violent content from the dataset used to train the model, and Azure AI deployed filters to reject prompts that violate content policy.
In addition, the team has integrated techniques that prevent DALL∙E 2 from creating images of celebrities as well as objects that are commonly used to try to trick the system into generating sexual or violent content. On the output side, the team has added models that remove AI generated images that appear to contain adult, gore and other types of inappropriate content.
We’re designing the interfaces to help users … use this tool to get the representation they want.
DALL∙E 2 is still subject to a challenge that many AI systems encounter: the system is only as good as the data used to train it. Without the benefit of context that provides insight to user intent, less descriptive prompts to DALL-E 2 can surface biases embedded in the training data – text and images from the internet.
That’s why Bird is working with Microsoft product teams to teach people how to use DALL∙E 2 in ways that help them achieve their goals – such as using more descriptive prompts that help the AI system better understand what results they’re after.
“We’re designing the interfaces to help users be more successful in what it’s generating, and sharing the limitations today, so that users are able to use this tool to get the representation that they want, not whatever average representation exists on the internet,” she said.
Buse recently joined the Mattel Future Lab, which is exploring ideas such as the metaverse and NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, to expand the reach of the toy business. She’s using DALL∙E 2 as a tool to help her imagine what these virtual experiences could look like.
“It’s fun to poke around in here to think about what would come up in a virtual world based on – pick a descriptor – a forest, mermaids, whatever,” she said, explaining that DALL∙E 2 is helping her team predict this future. “How do you predict the future? You keep feeding yourself more information, more imagery and thoughts to try and imagine how this would come together.”
Boyd, the Microsoft corporate vice president for Azure Platform, said DALL∙E 2 and the family of large language models that underpins it are unlocking this creative force across customers. The AI system is fuel for the imagination, enabling users to think of new and interesting ideas and bring them alive in their presentations and documents.
“What is most exciting, I think, is we’re just scratching the surface on the power of these large language models,” he said.
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Top image: Mattel toy designers are investigating how to use images generated by DALL∙E 2 in Azure OpenAI Service to help inspire new Hot Wheels designs. By typing plain language prompts like “A DTM race car like a hot rod” or “A Bonneville salt flats racer like a DTM race car,” they can generate multiple images to help spark creativity and inform final designs. 
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While you are creating, editing, or sending digital documents, it is necessary to capture an online signature so that the document can be authenticated. For effectively capturing a legally binding electronic signature online, there is a need for an electronic signature service.
Without the implementation of an online signature software, you will end up exposing your company to legal troubles. One of the top electronic signature software that are used by organizations commonly is called DocuSign.
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It is available at a nominal fee per month and ends up being a low-risk method to send a couple of documents per month while also getting an understanding of how online document signing actually operates.
As said, DocuSign is not the only choice that there is for an online signature software.
However, I’m just diverting your attention with this statement, DocuSign competition is a burning issue in the electronic signature software industry. Each DocuSign competitor has been trying to beat it by facilitating the user’s with same features in less budget.
Furthermore, all the DocuSign competitors that have been mentioned below provide free trial with some features. You can utilize for a days, if you are not satisfied with them. You can easily switch it and try another alternative to DocuSign.
There are multiple competitors and alternatives to DocuSign that are available in the market and they make a great choice. In this blog, I have listed top DocuSign competitors and alternatives that can make your selection convenient.
Let we start understanding of free DocuSign alternative one by one. Each DocuSign Competitor’s pricing have denoted based on the basic features that they offer. You may find out more about business and enterprise planning by visiting the software’s website.
➽ SignNow — 1st Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Borya Shakhnovich
➽ Mobile App: iOS | Android
➽ Location — Brookline, Massachusetts
In the list of DocuSign’s competitors, SignNow is one of the top Docusign competitor and electronic signature software for small businesses that comes with features needed to sign and send documents. It helps in generating agreements, automating and streamlining processes, accessing payments, and managing documents.
This application has reusable templates that help in simplifying the process of sending documents and saving time. When it comes to workflows, SignNow allows you to organize documents into groups and send them based on the roles of receivers.
With SignNow, it is also possible to set different actions after signing has been completed.
➽ Wesignature — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Ryan Pegram
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Thornton, Colorado
WeSignature is one of the best document signing software and most widely chosen electronic signature software at the present time.
Many professionals have been using this application for their personal and professional use which makes it the best DocuSign competitor.
It is a simple, efficient, and effortless software for signing documents as it enables individuals and organizations to sign a wide range of online documents.
Once you adopt the WeSignature application, you can sign the documents, fill up paperwork, and follow up with the receivers regularly.
It is an application that has consistently proven itself to be the best electronic signature service for small businesses.
Once you start using WeSignature, you will be surprised at the reduction of turnaround time from a couple of days to just a few minutes.
In addition, it also enables the organizations to send multiple documents to people all at once.
➽ Signaturely — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Will Cannon
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — 340 S Lemon Ave Ste 1760 Walnut, CA 91789
In another competitors to DocuSign, Signaturely is well known esignature software. It is also preferred by many people who are looking for simple methods to get their documents signed in a legal manner. Signaturely has proven itself to be a great alternative to DocuSign because of its simplicity.
Signaturely is easy to use and also makes online document signing simple. The reason why Signaturely stands out is that it focuses on eliminating the features.
It lays special emphasis on cutting down all unnecessary steps so that it becomes easy to get your documents signed.
➽ CocoSign — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Stephen Curry
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Singapore
Over the past few years, CocoSign has emerged as an extremely renowned online signature platform. It is one of best DocuSign competitor and is used for sending, signing, saving, and accessing documents online.
It is capable of automating business processes by closing deals quickly, safely, and legally.
CocoSign enables users to choose a free trial for understanding how the platform should work and how useful it can be. It is easily the best place for online signatures as it improves businesses by automating significant parts of business deals. It is empowered with multiple applications, integrations, APIs, and industry-specific solutions.
CocoSign allows you to get signatures digitally without facing problems in managing paperwork. It provides a user-friendly, digital, and integrated experience for creating e-signatures.
In addition, it also offers cross-platform functionality and can be accessed anywhere. People use it because it is safe, legally compliant, and efficient
➽ HelloSign — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Joseph Walla
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — San Francisco, CA
HelloSign is another online electronic signature software that is also understood to bring a wide range of features to the market. It is great with customer service, customization, and flexible pricing as well.
It also comes with a great API that enables you to embed and brand the signing options in the online documents.
This is an electronic signature company that is also compliant with all of the major online signature laws while offering an array of extensions and integrations.
It is an application owned by Dropbox and comes with powerful integration along with many tools such as Google Suite, Gmail, and more.
➽ Adobe Sign — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Shantanu Narayen
➽ Mobile App: iOS | Android
➽ Location — San Jose, CA
Adobe Sign is a feature-rich among DocuSign competitors. It is an online signature platform that provides you with the power to manage the workflows from any location and device. Many people use this app because of the seamlessness that it is capable of offering in electronic document signing.
Adobe Sign is an application that is known for its wide integration with third-party tools along with an added focus on global compliance.
It is full of features for both electronic and digital signatures. Many professionals have been choosing Adobe Sign for their personal and professional use.
➽ PandaDoc — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Mikita Mikado
➽ Mobile App: iOS | Android
➽ Location — San Francisco, California
Yet another top competitors to DocuSign is PandaDoc which is very well known for offering a streamlined user interface and ease of use.
This is an online signature tool that is known for providing a streamlined user interface and ease of use.
It is an e-signature tool that comes with great assistance in document management.
PandaDoc comes with a drag and drops integration, automated workflow, and audit history as well. It has multiple integrations including CRM, file storage applications, and payments.
If you are looking for an effective solution for the management of contracts then PandaDoc is worth giving a shot.
➽ RightSignature — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Daryl Bernstein, Cary Dunn, and Jonathan Siegel
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Fort Lauderdale, FL
Next DocuSign competitor, RightSignature is a perfect alternative to DocuSign that comes with a wide range of integrations as an important part of the e-signature process. It specializes in making document signing a simple process.
The users can upload online documents to RightSignature with a drag and drop tool for placing signature fields inside the document.
Once this happens, the users can send the document through an email to the customer for an optimized online signing experience. Using RightSignature offers plans for individuals and enterprise-level users as well. It provides features that are completely different as is the cost.
RightSignature also treats uploaded documents such as a locked PDF while enabling the users to drag the signature fields on the top of the page.
The custom branding with RightSignature is more like a white labeling feature as opposed to a branding kit.
➽ SignWell — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Martin Holmstrom
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Portland, Oregon
SignWell is another one of the competitors to DocuSign that is a cost-effective and user-friendly electronic signature application used by many businesses. It helps in eliminating many hours from the usual document signing process and is also compliant with e-signature laws.
This application comes with a free plan that also includes various features such as document tracking, flexible workflows, and reminders. This is an application that is being used by a wide range of people in recent times.
➽ SignEasy — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Sunil Patro
➽ Mobile App: iOS | Android
➽ Location — Brookline, Massachusetts
SignEasy is yet another top recommendation for many people. It is one of the best electronic signing software for personal use. You can sign up with a free trial and you can instantly begin by uploading documents, preparing them for signatures, and sending them.
SignEasy comes with wide integration support and also works within your favorite applications. You can open a document with Gmail, sign it, and then send it without any stress.
Finally, you can also take benefit of many features such as automated reminders, tracking, and signing sequences.
➽ Eversign — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Julian Zehetmayr
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Wien, Wien
The another choice in the list for DocuSign competitors is Eversign. It is a great solution for all users who need legally binding online signatures but are not looking to break the bank with a high fee.
Eversign is a cost-effective choice that comes with the ability to send many documents per month without an added fee.
The basic features that Eversign offers are all included in audit trails, contract management, and app integrations.
The businesses that are looking to onboard more users or seeking additional perks such as in-person signing can exist without any extra price tag.
➽ DigiSigner — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Jessica Kelly
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — 700 N Valley St Suite B Anaheim, CA 92801
DigiSigner is a cloud-based electronic signature software and one of the best DocuSign competitor that focuses on speed, affordability, and convenience of use.
Using the service, businesses and people can sign contracts and agreements from any location in the world, regardless of their location.
DigiSigner is compatible with a wide range of devices, including laptops, tablets, smartphones, and more.
All main e-signature laws, such as ESIGN, UETA, and European eIDAS, are met by DigiSigner.
DigiSigner’s signatures are legally binding and can be used in a court of law.
➽ SIGNiX — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Jay Jumper
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Chattanooga, TN
A next DocuSign competitor is SIGNiX, which makes it easy for partners in highly regulated industries like real estate, wealth management, and healthcare to use digital signature and online notarization software together.
There are no costs or risks to using the patented SIGNiX FLEX API.
It allows partners to offer military-grade cryptography, enhanced privacy, and permanent legal evidence of a true digital signature without having to deal with paper-based processes.
➽ Scrive — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Viktor Wrede
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Stockholm, Stockholm County
As soon as Scrive was started in 2010, it quickly became a leader in the Nordic e-sign market and take place in the list of top DocuSign competitors.
Today, more than 6000 customers in 40+ countries use Scrive to speed up their onboarding and agreements processes with solutions that use electronic signatures and IDs.
As a trusted digitalization partner, Scrive helps businesses of all sizes, even those in highly regulated industries, move forward with their digital transformations.
This includes improving customer experience, security, compliance, and data quality. Scrive is based in Stockholm and is owned by Vitruvian Partners. It has more than 200 employees.
➽ Secured Signing Software — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Gal Thompson
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 180 Mountain View CA 94040
Secured Signing Software is a cloud-based service for managing electronic signatures. It works with businesses of all sizes in a wide range of industries, including finance, education, and real estate.
Users can sign documents digitally, send email invitations to complete documents, and make forms with the help of these tools.
Secured Signing lets people send invitations to a group of people. Businesses can set up reminders and add extra fields to documents to help them.
The solution lets users add electronic signatures to word documents and set up approval processes. It may also let recipients add or change text before they sign.
Secured Signing works with Salesforce, Realme, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Face-to-face signing lets customers use an SMS code to prove their identity and then sign on the screen.
In the dashboard, users can see how long it will take to sign a form, as well as download and store signed copies of the form.
If you want to use Secured Signing’s services, you can pay for them each month or pay as you go.
Customer service is available through an online ticketing system, an online knowledge base, phone, and email, among other ways.
➽ eSign Genie — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Mahender Bist
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Cupertino, California
This electronic document signing service is actually quite expensive, despite the fact that it appears to be a bargain at first glance. Esign Genie is a splendid choice among top notch DocuSign competitors, despite its low price, is packed with capabilities that make the e-signing process more convenient for both signers and organizations.
The process of connecting to eSign Genie is as simple as creating a network connection and using the form-signing tools.
eSign Genie can help you collect document signing for a fraction of the cost of competing products like PandaDoc and GetAccept.
When it comes to the business, pay-as-you-go is one of the most intriguing aspects. This package also includes the ability to sign papers in person and assign signers, two features that are often reserved for more expensive e-signature services.
➽ SignRequest — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Geert-Jan Persoon
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
SignRequest appears to offer a lot of capability and customizability for senders who need to transmit multiple papers each month. When creating papers for multiple signers, the professional plan comes with features including a post-signature landing page and the ability to alter the document signing sequence.
This platform is ideal for small-business owners who don’t need to transmit a lot of documentation each month, and it offers everything you need.
You can easily see what paperwork has yet to be completed and what documentation has already been finished thanks to SignRequest’s document management features.
When it comes to creating templates, collecting signer attachments, and selecting the authentication mechanism your signatures may use, SignRequest is the best document signing software for businesses or anyone searching for a quick and easy method to sign.
➽ DrySign — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Ron Cogburn
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — 2701 E. Grauwyler Road Irving, TX 75061, USA
Due to its cloud-based best electronic signing software for company, it may assist speed up internal and external sign-offs, reduce the need for paper procedures, and increase team efficiency.
It is possible to use DrySign with any of the following cloud storage services: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and CRM. It can be utilized on a variety of platforms, including PCs, laptops, and even handheld devices.
The ESIGN Act and the UETA are among the electronic signing regulations that this method complies with. DrySign provides an audit trail, multi-factor authentication, and smart tracking to assist businesses reduce the risk connected with their transactions.
All documents and activity can be viewed from the dashboard. Multiple signatures can be requested, automated notifications can be set up, changes can be viewed in real time, document fields can be altered, and bulk files can be uploaded.
➽ KeepSolid Sign — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Vasiliy Ivanov
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Bronx, New York
Various documents, such as contracts, transactions, and other agreements, can be signed electronically with KeepSolid Sign. In either case, it is possible to set up this product.
As compared to DocuSign, KeepSolid Sign allows you to sync documents between several platforms, including PCs, tablets, and cellphones. The data in the system is encrypted with AES-256. Apps for iOS and Android devices are also available from the company.
Signing and annotating documents without being online is feasible, and the changes you make are saved. In order to keep track of the progress of a document, the service provides an activity dashboard that may be used by the user.
➽ Formstack Sign — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Chris Byers
➽ Mobile App: iOS | Android
➽ Location — Fishers, IN
In the DocuSign competition, Formstack Sign is an e-sign document platform built inside the Formstack data management system, allows users to sign documents electronically.
Filling out surveys and applying for jobs are just two examples of online forms that Formstack Sign is well-suited to handle because of its accessibility and signature automation features.
It is possible to trace the origins of the company back to Ade Olonoh, who founded FormSpring on February 28th, 2006. FormSpring predated FormStack.
Initially, it was designed to be an online form builder that also provided workflow management solutions for businesses like higher education and marketing.
An added benefit is that the integration of more than 50 web applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), email marketing (email marketing), payment processing and document management is available to Formstack customers who don’t have programming or software abilities.
➽ ZorroSign — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Shamsh Hadi
➽ Mobile App: iOS | Android
➽ Location — Phoenix, AZ
Document-based transactions, such as payroll and employee onboarding, can be managed with ZorroSign. It is a cloud-based electronic signature and digital transaction management solution.
ZorroSign uses proprietary forensics technologies to identify document forgery and signature forgery based on Blockchain technology.
If you’re looking for a document signing software that’s more secure than some of DocuSign alternative, such as government, legal, or healthcare, this is an excellent option. ZorroSign is also an environmentally responsible company as compared to other DocuSign Competitors.
➽ PDF Filler — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Boris Shakhnovich
➽ Mobile App: iOS | Android
➽ Location —Brookline, Massachusetts
For editing, producing, signing, and maintaining PDF files online, pdfFiller is the best option available. It is one of the greatest alternative to DocuSign.
Using it since 2008, it has made it easier for companies and people to go paperless!
Additionally, pdfFiller is part of the airSlate Business Cloud, a simple bundle that offers a variety of useful services.
➽ Dochub — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Chris Devor
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Boston
Online PDF annotation and best electronic signing software, Dochub, allows users to add text and photos to their PDFs online. Multi-signer procedures, document signing in bulk, lossless editing, team collaboration, and more are all possible with this program.
The low cost of this program makes it a standout in comparison to DocuSign. The process of setting up and transmitting documents to users has been made simpler.
With DocHub’s editing features and the option to keep multiple signatures on several devices, it’s easy to collaborate with others. As a result of this functionality, it is a significant DocuSign competitor.
➽ EasySIGN— Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Not Found
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Hapert, The Netherlands
They are proud to say that EasySIGN is acknowledged as a real one-stop-shop software solution for the signmaking and digital big format printing businesses worldwide.
The software provides unique, non-destructive design and production capabilities that are both inventive and easy to use in order to convert creative ideas into production-ready realities.
It offers a worldwide network of resellers that are experts in the field. More than 25 nations use the program, which has been translated into numerous languages and delivered to a dedicated clientele.
➽ Signority— Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO —Jane He
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — ON Canada
When you use Signority, the eSignature process is completely automated and your document management costs are much reduced. This allows you to focus more on your business.
Electronic signatures and reminders are both possible with the software, which delivers papers for digital signature and eSignature. All of your papers may be securely shared and kept in the cloud after they have been safely changed.
It enables process automation, corporate branding, real-time status alerts and traceability, and a host of additional benefits.
➽ Contract Book — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO —Niels Martin Brochner
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — New York, USA
Contractbook is a collaborative contract management platform that automates your process and syncs contract data across your corporate platforms. It is also a good document signing software as well as DocuSign competitor.
You may use it to handle contracts effectively. All forms of legal papers may be signed, created, and stored digitally with this program. It also aids in the creation of a more open company environment.
Compliance is guaranteed and time is saved thanks to the software Using the solution, legal practitioners may monitor and manage their client’s contract online with ease and security.
➽ Proposify — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Kyle Racki
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Halifax, Nova Scotia
It’s a web-based proposal management system. By using Proposify, you can take charge of and gain insight into the most important portion of the sales process. Develop your self-assurance and flexibility to the point where you can dictate the terms of any business transaction.
Produce flawless and consistent sales materials. Get the info you need to expand your process, make appropriate commitments, and develop accurate forecasts. Streamline the approval procedure for your clients and new clients.
This competitor to DocuSign offers a wide variety of features, including an easy-to-use design editor, electronic signatures, CRM integration, data-driven insights, dynamic pricing and packaging, document management, approval workflows, and more.
➽ Qwilr — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Dylan Baskind
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Redfern, New South Wales
Qwilr intends to completely alter the online paper-making and distribution processes for corporations. With this innovation, companies can easily convert static web material into interactive, user-friendly mobile experiences. According to the vendor, this enables businesses to provide clients with quotes, proposals, and presentations while also taking advantage of analytics and other capabilities.
Increase your company’s sales output by freeing your sales staff from mundane duties like copying and pasting and allowing them to focus on more strategic initiatives. Build a database of documents that can be readily updated when you receive new contacts. Effective real-time collaboration is made simpler with intuitive commenting and discussion features.
Provide a quote that can be modified in real time, signed digitally, and used in other ways to meet the individual requirements of each client. Without leaving the Qwilr app, your clients can give final approval by checking boxes and providing comments.
Qwilr, like other DocuSign competitors, is a web-based document editor that could help your company save time and look more professional when communicating with customers.
➽ DealHub — Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO —Eyal Elbahary
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location — Austin, Texas
The next notable DocuSign competitor is DealHub, which offers your business the most complete and unified revenue workflow available. Our zero-code platform is designed specifically to aid visionary leaders in improving cooperation, speeding up the sales cycle, and maintaining a steady flow of leads into the pipeline.
With the support of CPQ, CLM, and Subscription Management tools, which are all driven by an intuitive Sales Playbook, you can speed up the contract negotiation process, improve content delivery, and clinch more deals. A digital DealRoom is a platform where buyers and sellers can connect and exchange information in one convenient location.
Market leaders such as WalkMe, Gong, Drift, Hopin, Yotpo, Sendoso, and Braze are using DealHub to reduce their time to revenue and deliver a consistent sales experience for their sales teams and customers.
➽ DocSend— Free DocuSign Competitor & Alternative
➽ CEO — Russ Heddleston
➽ Mobile App: None, web-based only
➽ Location —San Francisco, CA
Sharing and managing the information that drives your business forward has never been easier than with Dropbox DocSend. Dropbox DocSend’s link-based approach makes it simple to tailor security to each recipient, track file views in real-time, evaluate content performance on a page-by-page basis, and establish up state-of-the-art virtual deal rooms. DocSend, like DocuSign’s competitors, is an e-signature service that may be used by any company.
The above-mentioned are some of the best DocuSign competitors that can help you to figure out which option suits your needs in the best ways. Many online signature software that have been discussed offer a free version so that the customers can find an easy and perfect solution.
If you ask our opinion then Signnow and WeSignature is the best option. It is the best one of the top online electronic signature software that come with a wide range of features. You can use this software to send unlimited documents while professionally designing documents for any purpose and numerous integrations.
You can begin a free trial and see how SignNow and WeSignature can help.
If you’re only searching for a way to submit and sign your electronic papers, DocuSign is fantastic. However, teams who wish to do more with their documents will find it to be a poor fit.
Here are some of the reasons why you might want to look at one of DocuSign’s competitors.
The market for electronic signatures is constantly changing.
Other significant e-signing hubs including SignNow, Wesignature, Signaturely, and PandaDoc are currently greatest DocuSign’s competitors.
On the market, there are several eSignature service providers, all of them provide slightly unique products. It can be difficult to decide which eSignature solutions will be most useful for you and which could be a waste of money, though, given the abundance of options. Prior to deciding on a DocuSign competitors for your company, consider the following points:
Finding the ideal DocuSign competitors for you will be much simpler now that you are aware of the answers to those concerns.
There are cheaper competitors to DocuSign, and SignNow is one of them. If your company needs an easy way to collect valid electronic signatures, look no further than SignNow eSignature software.
The excellent DocuSign competitor is SignNow. When you use SignNow to send out documents for signature, you may send a lot more of them at a much reduced cost. Use it more easily and get better customer service.
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Microsoft Ignite 2022 wrapped up with more than 300 announcements made at the event.
In his opening keynote, chief executive officer Satya Nadella highlighted some of the most impactful changes and new products the company will be offering over the coming months.

 
Azure virtual machines (VMs) running on the Ampere Altra processors became generally available last month, so it isn’t brand-spanking new. Still, it was important enough to get a mention in the keynote. This is a significant product offering that provides a high price-to-performance ratio for web services, databases, microservices and more. Designed for scaled-out, cloud-native workloads, these VMs can be included in Kubernetes clusters and managed using Azure Kubernetes Service.
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Now in preview, Azure Container for PyTorch has curated environments and custom images that will bundle Microsoft technologies to help to deploy and support optimized training for PyTorch models.
This is a big new feature coming to Microsoft Office. The new tool is an app that lets anyone, with or without an Office subscription, quickly design professional graphics and pages. During the presentation, Nadella demonstrated Designer’s ability to create unique images based on text, a feature that’s enabled by a collaboration with OpenAI’s DALLE-2 AI image generation system. One critical application for this design is advertising, especially on social media. With it, Microsoft is poking into the design market occupied by established creative software giants like Adobe. The version included in the paid Office subscription will be more robust, but a free tier will be available upon launch.
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Notion vs Trello: Project management software comparison
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If your company is considering which project management and communication tool to choose, you should compare the features of Notion and Trello.
Project management can quickly become complicated waters to navigate, especially as your projects and company grow. Not only will you have more projects to tackle, but you’ll also have more stakeholders at work to make them happen. As those numbers increase, you need the right project management tools to keep the work flowing and deadlines on target.
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To complicate matters, the number of available tools and services to help you manage those projects and documents is staggering. Where do you turn? Which service do you use? Do you go kanban, Gantt, Wiki, tasks, calendars or a combination?
When you start your search for the right project management software, you are bound to come across both Notion and Trello. These two project management platforms share quite a bit of overlap, but Trello and Notion are also quite different. Which one of these services is right for your company. Let’s dig in and find out.
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Notion is a project management and document management platform designed to help your teams to collaborate with tools to coordinate deadlines, objectives and assignments. Within a single workspace, your teams can think, write, plan, capture thoughts, manage projects and run departments. With tools like kanban boards (Figure A), workspaces, meeting notes, docs, tasks, assignments and calendars, Notion might well be the perfect platform for any team looking to merge document management and project management.
Figure A
Trello might not be one of the most popular workflow management tools on the market, but it certainly can compete with the competition by offering all the features you need in a simple-to-use, modern interface (Figure B). Trello offers workspaces, kanban, timelines, tables, calendars, dashboards, maps, templates, filters, automation and Powerups to add new features.
Figure B
If there’s one buzzword that deserves its time in the limelight, it’s workflow. When you have an efficient and smooth workflow, project management becomes a thing of ease. Between these two, Trello has a leg up on workflow, simply by sticking with a layout that makes it easy to move between the different (yet tightly interconnected) tools. With an interface that makes it very easy to not only switch between those tools but to see how integrated they are gives Trello a slight advantage.
However – and this is a big “however” – Notion offers a more complete package for teams to collaborate. For example, Notion includes added features that combine to make for a more complete workflow. Start with meetings, work those into documents, create tasks based on the documents, build boards to manage the tasks, assign tasks and then keep track of it all in a calendar view. That’s a complete workflow that would benefit nearly any team.
Although Notion does split its time between project and document management, the project management aspect of the service is as strong as many others in the field. However, for straight-up project management, Trello pulls ahead by adding just the right collection of features most teams are accustomed to using.
Another advantage Trello has is the interface. Although Notion does make it easy to switch between features, the layout is rather old-school and can sometimes feel more like a Wiki on steroids than a true project management suite.
I’m going to have to give Notion the advantage in the collaboration arena. Although Trello does offer plenty of powerful collaboration tools, the second you start working with Notion you immediately understand this platform is all about collaboration. From meeting notes, to documents, to assignments, and the ability to connect a workspace to a Slack channel, Notion offers plenty of collaboration options. Once you’ve added team members, you can then add them as stakeholders to various items. Those stakeholders will automatically send emails on additions and updates.
That doesn’t mean Trello misses out on collaboration options. For instance, you can share an entire board or a single card with team members and even invite non-members to join in on the collaboration.
Notion and Trello offer plenty of templates to make creating project management spaces easy. Trello offers templates for things like one-on-one meeting agendas, agile boards, company overviews, design huddles, go-to-market strategy, kanban, mise-en-place productivity, project management, remote team meetings and more. Notion categorizes its templates by purpose, such as design, student, engineering, human resources, marketing, personal, product management, sales and support.
Although both services approach templates very differently, they simplify the process of creating new assets from scratch.
If I had to make a choice, the win would go to Trello because the modern interface will be much easier for new team members to get up to speed with. That doesn’t discount Notion, but the Wiki-like UI might put off some project members who are more accustomed to mobile interfaces with easy drag-and-drop assets.
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Both photo buffs and family archivists often turn to photo scanners to digitize their prints and film. Photo scanners are set apart by features such as a high sensor resolution and the ability to scan transparencies (slides and negatives) in addition to photo prints. Many include software to help retouch scans and remove scratches.
Though built to handle photos, most photo scanners can also be used for general-purpose scanning, and some include optical character recognition (OCR) software for digitizing the occasional document. This is a niche segment of the hardware market; you’ll see relatively few dedicated photo scanners on the market, and they tend to have very long shelf lives. (As you peruse and click on our models summed up above and below, you’ll note that many were reviewed years ago. Yes, they’re still the current models.) Check out summaries of our still-current favorites below, followed by a guide to choosing the right model for you, and then a detailed spec table of all our recommended models.

Why We Picked It
The Canon CanoScan LiDE 400 is an under-$100, entry-level flatbed photo scanner. But it fills a nifty niche for nonprofessional photographers who need to scan both photos and, from time to time, documents. Since it doesn’t have an automatic document feeder (ADF), it’s not your best choice for frequent multipage jobs, but it combines document management and optical character recognition (OCR) with impressive photo scanning and touch-up software. It also saves desk space with a vertical kickstand and can stitch together multiple scans of plus-size photos.
Who It’s For
The LiDE 400 lacks Wi-Fi or wired networking, but it capably serves a personal or small-office PC connected via USB. Its vibrant color and crisp detail make it a great pick for light-duty photo-quality scanning.

Why We Picked It
Got a shoebox full of snapshots? You need Epson’s FastFoto FF-680W, whose automatic document feeder (ADF) is specially designed to handle stacks of prints. (It has plastic guides with marks for 5-by-7- and 4-by-6-inch originals, and it can adjust to other sizes.) It feeds through stacks of pics without tearing or creasing them as a text-oriented scanner’s feeder might. It’s much quicker than manually placing photos on a flatbed scanner’s glass, one after the other, and it does a decent job of turning document pages into searchable PDF or Word files when you’ve emptied the shoebox.
Who It’s For
Home archivists who want to digitize stacks and scrapbooks full of photo prints will think the FastFoto FF-680W is heaven-sent. It’s smart about scanning both sides of postcards and other items (ignoring flip sides if they’re blank). And it can help you rotate, crop, or restore images or upload them to Dropbox or Google Drive.

Why We Picked It
Want higher-quality scans of photo prints than your typical multifunction printer/copier/scanner can provide, but don’t need to scan film? Do not pass Go, but head straight to the Epson Perfection V39, an affordable flatbed photo scanner that also scans to editable text and searchable PDF formats. Its 2,400ppi resolution is fine-grained enough to let you crop in on and enlarge a small section of a photo. And it gives you a choice of an easy automatic mode, or granular settings such as a Color Restore mode that boosts the color of faded photos.
Who It’s For
With a single USB cable for both power and data and a semi-vertical kickstand that saves desk space, the Perfection V39 is simple to operate, and it outshines its competitors at also handling the occasional short document. Both casual and serious photographers will find it a good deal.

Why We Picked It
Sometimes every cent counts. Canon’s CanoScan LiDE 300 has only half the resolution and is a tad slower than the LiDE 400 that earned a PCMag Editors’ Choice award, and it lacks that flatbed’s ability to stand upright to save desk space. But it costs $20 less and combines good photo scanning quality with a helpful software bundle. Its adjustable lid accommodates thicker items such as books and magazines as well as prints, too.
Who It’s For
We wouldn’t call the CanoScan LiDE 300 better than its model 400 sibling or Epson’s abovementioned Perfection V39, but it does a great job of digitizing photos on a budget. Its Fading Correction and Auto Dust & Scratch Reduction filters pep up aging prints, and it’s a solid choice for dorm rooms and other low-volume scanning environments.

Why We Picked It
As flatbed scanners go, the Epson Expression 12000XL-PH is decidedly expensive, not to mention bulky and heavy. But professional photographers will appreciate this wide-format, high-resolution device’s double-size scanning area (it handles pages up to 12.2 by 17.2 inches) and bundled transparency unit for scanning slides, transparencies, and negatives. Too big for a desktop, it’s designed to take bench space next to your wide-format professional photo printer, where it pairs 2,400-by-4,800dpi resolution with Epson’s ColorTrue II imaging system. The latter combines MatrixCCD scan technology with a zero-warmup-time LED light source.
Who It’s For
Imaging pros will revel in this unit. Thanks to LaserSoft Imaging’s SilverFast Ai IT8 software, the 12000XL-PH provides deep, versatile controls for setting up and enhancing the quality of your scans. Whether you’re scanning slides, 35mm negatives, or oversize artwork and photos, its terrific results make the Epson a prize addition to a professional design or photography studio.

Why We Picked It
The Epson FastFoto FF-680W’s automatic feeder can scan up to 36 prints in one gulp. The ClearClick QuickConvert 2.0 scans only one photo at a time, but on the other hand it’s portable and can scan slides and negatives as well as prints. This four-pound, battery-powered gadget has a 2.4-inch color LCD for viewing images or making setup changes, and it comes with an assortment of bases and holders for everything from 4-by-6-inch snapshot prints to 126 or 110 negatives. It offers resolution up to 14 megapixels, and it supports Wi-Fi as well as USB connectivity. (Plus. you can scan to SD memory cards.)
Who It’s For
Casual archivists will be satisfied with this model, though the ClearClick requires a little patience to use. It’s more for casual or everyday snapshots than prized wedding or prom photos. But it’s a simple device for consumers who don’t need professional imaging quality. For short stacks rather than shoeboxes or scrapbooks full of pics, it does the trick.

Why We Picked It
Plustek’s ePhoto Z300 is a sheetfed rather than flatbed photo scanner, which makes it snappy at processing a stack of prints even though, with no automatic document feeder (ADF), you must insert items one at a time. It’s also affordable—one-third the price of Epson’s FastFoto FF-680W—and scans up to letter-size prints, with a gentle feed mechanism that won’t damage old or fragile photos. Its document-scanning abilities are limited, and its photo quality is no match for fancier scanners, but it’s fine for household tasks such as archiving snapshots.
Who It’s For
If you have a bunch of family photos that need digital preservation, and you don’t have the patience to place them one or two at a time on a flatbed scanner, the ePhoto Z300 and its bundled software are a handy solution. The Epson FastFoto offers both higher volume and better quality, but it costs a lot more.
One feature shared by most “true” photo scanners is a flatbed design. In these scanner designs, you lift a lid to expose a glass platen, onto which you place the image to be scanned. A key differentiator between models is the platen size; most are letter-size (8.5 by 11 inches) or legal-size (8.5 by 14 inches). You’ll want to be cognizant of that spec depending on the size of what originals you will tend to scan.
We strongly urge you to avoid making a habit of scanning photos (or any delicate originals, for that matter) through a sheetfed document scanner, whether it’s a standalone model or one built into a multifunction or all-in-one printer (more on that in a moment). This works in a pinch, but it risks damaging your originals, even if they’re enclosed in a protective sleeve. A notable exception is the Epson FastFoto line of sheetfed photo printers, the latest of which is the FastFoto FF-680W. The FastFoto models are built specifically for scanning shoeboxes full of photo prints and are engineered to treat the prints gently.
Photo scanners are available in a wide range of prices and capabilities. As a rule, low-cost photo models are limited to scanning photo prints. Many do a very good job of this, generally for less than $100. Starting in the $200 range are scanners that can handle slides and/or film negatives. Such models come with plastic frames or holders that fit multiple slides or negatives and secure them in place on the platen during scanning. This helps with alignment and spacing during the scan and reduces the need to handle the transparencies directly off the platen.
Most scanners offer basic and advanced modes, accessible through their driver or scanning software. Typically, a scanner utility’s basic mode will select the scan settings for you, while the advanced mode will let you customize the settings.
Many scanner drivers also have dust- and scratch-removal capabilities. The dust feature sometimes works well, but effective scratch removal really requires a hardware-based solution. To pinpoint this, look for something called Digital ICE technology, which is generally built into some higher-end photo scanners.
Though most people who scan a lot of photos will want a single-function scanner, nearly all multifunction printers (MFPs), also known as all-in-ones (AIOs), include a flatbed that can scan photo prints and other material. The quality of their photo scanning varies widely, depending on the hardware and software involved. Most fall well short of single-function photo scanners in terms of scan quality and/or photo-centric features. (See our picks for the best AIO printers.)
A few models, which we call home photo labs, can scan slides and negatives in addition to prints, providing a variety of photo-centric features as well as the normal MFP functions (printing, copying, and—in some cases—faxing). They’re worth considering if you’re a scrapbooker or a photo buff in need of a versatile photo scanner that can print and make copies, as well. Look at a printer vendor’s specifically photo-minded AIOs to identify these models. There’s no denying that an AIO can save a lot of desk space versus a separate printer and flatbed scanner.
The models we highlight here run the gamut from inexpensive consumer units to scanners aimed at serious photographers, be they professionals or advanced amateurs. What all these products have in common is that they’re the best photo scanners in their respective categories on the market today. The models we discussed above are detailed in our spec table below.
For more on what to look for in a scanner, check out our top overall scanner picks. Also, before you start that big digitizing project, you’ll want to check out our top tips for preserving your photos.
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