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This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition, run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Futures (DSTF) programme, aims to identify and develop novel, early stage research ideas that may have a significant and disruptive impact on the future of Defence. A disruptive impact is something that radically alters how we do things – this can be positive (e.g. a new capability becomes available) or negative (e.g. a new type of threat arises).
This competition is funded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
The outcome of this competition is anticipated to be a pool of novel Science and Technology (S&T) ideas / concepts that may be disruptive. These ideas / concepts may then be used as the basis for further research within the DSTF Programme.
Midday on Wednesday 12th October 2022
Via the DASA Online Submission Service for which you will require an account. Only proposals submitted through the DASA Online Submission Service will be accepted.
You must not submit any information classified above OFFICIAL. If you wish to add supporting information that may be above OFFICIAL you must contact DASA in advance and we will discuss solutions with you.
The total funding available for this competition is approximately £750k (ex VAT).
The value of each submission must be for a fixed amount of £50k. Failure to submit a proposal for this amount will result in the proposal being sifted out as non-compliant.
Contracts will be awarded for a duration of up to 4 months from 3rd January 2023 and must complete with an executive summary delivered by 31st March, a 5000-7000 word report delivered by 24th April 2023, followed by a 20-minute presentation to a MOD Board on either the 3rd or 4th May 2023 in London. Dstl would prefer that the presentation is given in person. However, an option to present virtually will be made available if attendance in person is not possible. A confirmed date and time will be provided to you in April 2023.
Friday 16th September 2022 – A dial-in session providing further detail on the problem space and a chance to ask questions in an open forum. If you would like to participate, please register on the Eventbrite page . To get the most out of this session, we strongly advise that you attend with a good knowledge of the competition document.
The Defence Science and Technology Futures (DSTF) Programme identifies novel early stage research which may have a significant game-changing or disruptive impact on future military capability, concepts of operation, threats or other areas of relevance to Defence. We are looking for ideas that may underpin generation-after-next technology, concepts or approaches and could disrupt traditional technologies or ways of thinking. The intention of this competition is to maximise the opportunities for exploiting innovation and reduce the likelihood of technological surprises caused by changes to the science and technology landscape. The programme is not about identifying incremental changes.
The ideas sought for this competition may not fulfil any current Defence requirement. Geo-politics, environmental issues, economics and many other factors will shape future scenarios and Defence requirements. The DSTF Programme has to consider what various futures might look like and speculate on how current novel Science and Technology (S&T) might develop and impact on what Defence needs to do in those various futures. This will enable Defence to better understand and plan for the future, helping to combat threats and take advantage of opportunities.
The DSTF Programme recognises the need to look beyond the current, developed science and technology landscape and beyond the traditional defence enterprise to explore emerging ideas and evaluate their future value. This DASA competition has been launched to support this need.
The aim of this competition is to identify new ideas and ways of doing things that are potentially disruptive to Defence and then to further develop the understanding of the ideas and their future impact. It is likely that further research will be required to develop the understanding of the ideas. It may be necessary to consider multiple capability areas and multiple future scenarios to assess where the developed idea could have the most impact in future Defence. The outcome of the work should be an exciting flavour of what might be possible and what the affects might be, rather than a detailed study developing the understanding of the science.
We are interested in low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) ideas (TRL 1-2) from any discipline that you believe may, in the future, disrupt the current ways of innovating and have the potential to lead to radical change^{[footnote 1]}. Proposals may derive from horizon scanning or technology watching, the bidders own internal research activities or via any other mechanism. Ideas need to have theoretical basis, supported by reasoned explanation.
DASA provides fixed funding of £50k per project to advance these ideas and to assess how they might impact on the future of Defence.
The DSTF programme recognises that investigation of low TRL S&T has a high risk of failure. This is accepted. Should it be discovered during the work that the original concept is not likely to be valid or an alternative low TRL idea / concept / technology would likely be more important, this would be considered to be a valid outcome of the work. However, we would still expect the work that led to this conclusion to be comprehensive, described in detail in the report and the findings to be presented, as described below.
This competition has 1 requirement.
This DASA competition will award each successful bidder £50k to:
take one or more novel very low TRL idea, as identified in the proposal, and further develop them to better understand the science behind them and their potential to form a disruptive technology in the future – this might be through laboratory research, modelling, or other approaches
develop concepts of how the idea might be deployed in the future – for example, could it only be used in particular circumstances or could it have impact across Defence?
describe the circumstances in which the idea might be disruptive and the potential impact on the future of Defence
The intention of this requirement is to develop an understanding of ideas to help determine their potential to be disruptive. Bidders should think about how the idea / concept / technology may fit within the future Defence landscape, and the technological landscape of the world in general, rather than the confines of contemporary technologies and capabilities.
Please note, the awarded amount, contract length, deliverables and milestone payments have all been set as part of this requirement.
Ideas that might help solve this requirement include:
your own very early stage science and technology that you did not initially see as having a Defence application
ideas identified through your own horizon scanning or technology watch, that you believe could be disruptive and should be investigated further
ideas that you have developed through brainstorming or other workshopping approaches that you believe have the potential to disrupt the future Defence landscape but are at a very low TRL level (TRL 1-2)
Any ideas submitted to this requirement must have a theoretical basis supported by reasoned explanation.
Your proposal should provide an outline description of the idea or ideas and their potential significance to Defence. The proposal should describe how the project funding of £50k would be used to expand upon the idea(s) and further develop an understanding of their:
fundamental scientific or theoretical basis
future viability and the potential development paths
potentially disruptive impacts and use cases (both positive and negative, opportunity and threat) within future Defence
The following deliverables are required:
a 2 page ‘executive summary’ to present the findings of your research to date. This must be submitted by 31st March 2023
a short report describing the low TRL S&T, the further development work you have undertaken and how this has improved the understanding of the potential impact of the idea on Defence in the future. If more in-depth research is required to further develop Defence’s understanding of the disruptive potential of the S&T, this should be described. The report should comprise 5000-7000 words excluding the title page, contents list and reference list. It should be written in plain English and the use of specialist terminology should be minimised. The extensive use of images and figures is encouraged where they will aid in readability of the document. This mandatory report must be delivered before the 24th April 2023.
a 20 minute briefing to an MOD Board, describing the outputs of the research and highlighting what you believe the MOD could do to further understand the potential of the low TRL ideas or concepts. It is the intention that this Board will identify the topics of most interest to be taken forward for further investigation by the MOD research programme^{[footnote 2]}. Dstl would prefer that the presentation is given in person. However, an option to present virtually will be made available if attendance in person is not possible. The event will be held in London on 3rd or 4th May 2023. A confirmed date and time will be provided to you in April 2023. Note, the costs of attending the presentation should be included in the £50k budget for funded ideas; no further funding with be provided for travel and subsistence.
We are interested in novel, very low TRL S&T ideas which could either benefit Defence in the future or form the basis of a threat. We would like you to provide us with an exciting flavour of what might be possible and be disruptive. Your proposal should include evidence of:
creative ideas / concepts / technology that have the potential to cause a significant game-changing or disruptive impact on Defence
ideas which are at an early stage of development (equivalent to TRL 1-2)
ideas that have a theoretical basis supported by reasoned explanation
the development of those ideas through research to understand their potential to be disruptive in the future
development of concepts of how the ideas might be deployed in the future to become either an opportunity or threat to Defence
clear demonstration of how the proposed work applies to Defence
We are not interested in proposals that:
include innovation that is TRL 3 and above. Any proposed ideas that are judged to be TRL 3 and above will be viewed as non-compliant and sifted out. Please refer to the TRL guide or contact a DASA Innovation Partner for guidance here
suggest ideas that are not likely to be disruptive, are likely to only lead to incremental change and/or offer no real prospect of out-competing existing technological solutions
suggest ideas that cannot apply to Defence
include ideas that have no form of theoretical basis which can be described by reasoned explanation
constitute consultancy, paper-based studies or literature reviews which just summarise the existing literature without further development
an unsolicited resubmission of a previous DASA proposal
do not include an evaluation of how the ideas could be disruptive in the future and impact on Defence
Your proposal would not be expected to deliver a proof of concept capable of validation in a laboratory-style environment.
The deliverables of this competition should indicate if more research should enable Defence to gain the greatest benefit.
It is the intention that the MOD Board, discussed above, will identify the topics of most interest to be taken forward for further investigation by the MOD research programme. However, it is not guaranteed that any idea will be picked up and developed further. Any decisions on research programme content, structure and funding at that stage would be independent of this DASA call. Further research at that stage may be placed through competition.
Midday on Wednesday 12th October 2022
You must submit your proposal via the DASA Online Submission Service for which you will be required to register.
Only proposals submitted through the DASA Online Submission Service will be accepted.
This Themed Competition uses a different application form compared to previous DASA Themed Competitions. The application is shorter. For those proposals that meet the mandatory criteria, 30 minutes will be allocated for assessment. Please ensure your proposal can be read, in its entirety, within this time.
You must not submit any information classified above OFFICIAL. If you wish to add supporting information that may be above OFFICIAL you must contact DASA in advance and we will discuss solutions with you.
The total possible funding available for this competition is approximately £750k (ex VAT).
The value of each submission must be for a fixed amount of £50k. Failure to submit a proposal for this amount will result in the proposal being sifted out as non-compliant.
We anticipate that we will fund around 15 proposals all of which will be £50k in value.
Click here for more information on our competition process. This competition is using specific assessment criteria, so, click here, for more information on how your proposal is assessed. Please be advised that the time allocated for assessment will be 30 minutes and not the traditional 90 minutes.
Queries should be sent to the DASA Help Centre – accelerator@dstl.gov.uk
the proposal should focus on the competition requirements – it should include recommendations for further research, if necessary, to better understand the potential of the S&T idea(s)
when submitting a proposal, you must complete all sections of the online form, including an appropriate level of technical information to allow assessment of the proposal and a completed finances section
completed proposals must comply with the financial rules set for this competition. The fixed amount for each proposal is £50k (ex VAT). Proposals will be rejected as non-compliant if the financial cost is not for this fixed amount
you must include a list of other current or recent government funding you may have received in this area if appropriate, making it clear how this proposal differs from this work
a project plan that clearly includes only the 3 deliverables must be provided. These deliverables have been defined in the competition document and are designed to provide evidence of progress against the project plan and the end-point for this competition; they must only include; an executive summary, a final report and final presentation. Proposals with any deliverables less than or more than the 3 required for this competition will be rejected as non-compliant
a maximum of 2 payment milestones. The final payment milestone must be at least 20% of the overall project cost, as outlined in the terms and conditions
you should also plan for attendance at a kick-off meeting at the start of the project, and a presentation to the MOD Board as your final deliverable. Please also plan for regular reviews with the appointed Technical Partner and Project Manager at the end of month 1 and month 2; all meetings will be in the UK. Meetings may also take place virtually
your proposal must demonstrate how you will complete all activities / services and provide all deliverables within the competition timescales (4 months). Proposals with the final report deliverable outside the competition timeline will be rejected as non-compliant
Your resourcing plan must identify, where possible, the nationalities of proposed employees that you intend to work on the project.
In the event of a proposal being recommended for funding, the DASA reserves the right to undertake due diligence checks including the clearance of proposed employees. Please note that this process will take as long as necessary and could take up to 6 weeks in some cases for non-UK nationals. This will take place during November and December to allow for contracts to start on 03 January.
As contracts are of 4 months is duration, any ethical / legal / regulatory factors identified within your proposal will not be accepted.
MODREC approvals can take up to 5 months therefore any proposals identifying the need for MODREC approval will be sifted out as non-compliant. Please contact your Innovation Partner for further guidance.
Requirements for access to Government Furnished Assets (GFA), for example, information, equipment, materials and facilities, may not be included in your proposal. Given the timescales and nature of the competition, no GFA will be available.
All relevant export control regulations will apply if a company ultimately wants to sell a developed solution to a foreign entity. All innovators must ensure that they can obtain, if required, the necessary export licences for their proposals and developments, such that they can be supplied to the UK and other countries. If you cannot confirm that you can gain the requisite licences, your proposal will be sifted out of the competition.
Additionally, if we believe that you will not be able to obtain export clearance, additional checks may be conducted, which may also result in your proposal being sifted out of the competition.
On receipt of a ‘Fund’ decision, suppliers must submit a Supplier Assurance Questionnaire (SAQ). The SAQ allows suppliers to demonstrate compliance with the specified risk level and the corresponding profile in Def Stan 05-138, the levels of controls required will depend on this risk level.
Successful suppliers will be emailed a Risk Assessment Reference (RAR) number and corresponding risk level, and must use this to complete a SAQ here. The completed SAQ form and resulting email response from Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) must be downloaded and returned to DASA. Further guidance can be found at: DCPP: Cyber Security Model industry buyer and supplier guide.
If the SAQ reveals deficiencies then a Cyber Implementation Plan (CIP) is needed and requires approval before a contract can be awarded.
If you have any questions please contact accelerator@dstl.gov.uk
When submitting your proposal, you will be required to include a title and a short abstract. The title and abstract you provide will be used by DASA, and other government departments, to describe your project and its intended outcomes and benefits. They may be included at DASA events in relation to this competition and in documentation such as brochures. The proposal title will be published in the DASA transparency data on GOV.UK, along with your organisation name, the amount of funding, and the start and end dates of your contract. As this information can be shared, it should not contain information that may compromise Intellectual property.
At Stage 1, all proposals will be checked for compliance with the competition document and may be rejected before full assessment if they do not comply. Only those proposals that demonstrate compliance against the competition scope and DASA mandatory criteria for this competition will be taken forward to full assessment.
Proposals that pass Stage 1 will then be assessed against this assessment criteria (Desirability, Feasibility and Viability) by subject matter experts from the MOD (including Dstl), other government departments and the front-line military commands. You will not have the opportunity to view or comment on assessors’ recommendations.
DASA reserves the right to disclose on a confidential basis any information it receives from innovators during the procurement process (including information identified by the innovator as Commercially Sensitive Information in accordance with the provisions of this competition) to any third party engaged by DASA for the specific purpose of evaluating or assisting DASA in the evaluation of the innovator’s proposal. In providing such information the innovator consents to such disclosure. Appropriate confidentiality agreements will be put in place.
After assessment, proposals will be discussed internally at a Decision Conference where, based on the assessments, budget and wider strategic considerations, a decision will be made on the proposals that are recommended for funding.
Bidders are not permitted to attend the Decision Conference.
Proposals that are unsuccessful will receive brief feedback after the Decision Conference.
Please read the DASA terms and conditions which contain important information for innovators. For this competition we will be using the Innovation Standard Contract (ISC) Terms and Schedules. We will require unqualified acceptance of the terms and conditions; if applicable, please ensure your commercial department has provided their acceptance.
Funded projects will be allocated a Project Manager (to run the project) and a Technical Partner (as a technical point of contact).
We will use deliverables from DASA contracts in accordance with our rights detailed in the contract terms and conditions.
For this competition, £750k is currently available to fund proposals. There may be occasions when additional funding becomes available to allow us to revisit proposals deemed suitable for funding. Therefore, DASA reserves the right to keep such proposals in reserve. In the event that additional funding becomes available, DASA may ask whether you would still be prepared to undertake the work outlined in your proposal under the same terms.
Competition queries on process, proposal application, commercial, technical and intellectual property aspects should be sent to the DASA Help Centre at accelerator@dstl.gov.uk, quoting the competition title. If you wish receive future updates on this competition, please email the DASA Help Centre.
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Jernigans and Strohn partner to create “Images of America: King City”
KING CITY — John and Karen Jernigan have teamed up with Howard Strohn to write a history book about King City, “Images of America: King City,” which was released July 25. 
The Jernigans, longtime residents of King City, worked with Strohn, from Priest Valley, for more than a year to put together a collection of 200 photos with captions full of historical information in the 128-page book published by Arcadia Publishing, covering the city’s history from 1886 through the 1970s.
“We want people to have a greater appreciation for where they live,” Karen Jernigan said of the purpose behind the book. “… It gives more meaning to your surroundings to know something about what was there before and the people that were there and the stories about those people.”
John Jernigan added, “The farming, the mining, all the stuff that’s gone on around King City, it’s an amazing story.”
The Jernigans met Strohn at the King City Library when he was researching microfilm documents, and said they were impressed with his work.
“Howard is by far the most knowledgeable person of South County that I know of,” John Jernigan said.
With Strohn being in his 80s and living in an area with limited internet access, his handwritten notes provided the backbone of the team’s information. John Jernigan worked on the digital side of the project and oversaw photos, including scanning large glass negatives, a form of photography that predated compact film negative technology. Karen Jernigan wrote the captions and was the primary editor.
“With the combination of his knowledge, Karen’s writing ability and editing ability, and my ability to do the pictures, it was a trifecta and perfect match,” John Jernigan said.
The work began in November 2020, during which the trio met weekly. The Jernigans would select photos and review the selection with Strohn, who would then do the research for caption notes, and then Karen would write them. 
They originally selected 250 photos, but had to narrow down to 200 for the book, which the Jernigans said was tough as everyone had favorites in the rejected images.
The trio worked with a team of 40 proofreaders to help make sure everything was accurate, from area English teachers to locals familiar with the history of areas in and around King City.
Some surprises the Jernigans said they found related to changing business needs as technology or routes shifted. Highway 101 used to run through King City, meaning highway traffic passed along Broadway, giving rise to many more gas stations than are seen in the modern version of the street. However, the book’s cover image showing a giant tire used as a sign for a place called King City Auto Camp gave rise to finding out just what it referred to.
“Auto camps were very popular because a freeway ran through the city and people would stop and spend the night,” Karen Jernigan said. “Right next to each room would be a place where you could pull your car in.”
“In those early years, a lot of the cars did not have tops,” added John Jernigan, explaining the spots for cars were protected from weather to entice guests to stay overnight.
Another lodging curiosity was the term “sample room.”
“There were some advertisements and articles about hotels having sample rooms,” John Jernigan explained. “What it was, they had specific rooms that allowed you to put your samples out because they were traveling salesmen.”
They also noted “livery stables” as an interesting term, from early in the town’s history when horses were frequently used for transportation.
“To think there were stables for horses in downtown is something new to me,” Karen Jernigan said.
Ad material also led to discovering another shift in markets, as John Jernigan noted advertisements for daily oysters, provided from the daily railroad delivery from San Francisco.
“I can’t get them in King City today, but the train came by everyday and brought them from San Francisco,” he said.
Other historical quirks found in the book include the sorting of W. J. Hamilton and W. C. Hamilton, who both lived in King City at the same time, and were often mixed up. Property one owned would be confused for the other. But, biggest of all to the Jernigans was clearing up precisely which one was related to author John Steinbeck.
Research for the project included not only Strohn’s expertise, including his indexing of local newspapers from 1901 through 1950, as well as information from the county recorder’s office and assessor’s office. They also scoured old newspapers and searched around the internet for photos. 
Part of their research included obtaining negatives from Georgia to scan. The Jernigans said the foundation of that work was Strohn’s knowledge.
“There are things in our book, addresses and names, that there’s virtually nobody else in this world that knows them but Howard because he has read and can somehow retain them,” John Jernigan said.
The Jernigans had a few tips for beginning historians as they pursue research and publication. 
“Keep track of addresses,” said Karen Jernigan, explaining the ability to find places based on an address is more helpful to the next historian down the line rather than saying a location is near a shop or landmark, which might not exist in the future. She also reminded historians to keep track of the dates of their notes and sources.
John Jernigan recommended historians keep track of where they got all their information. If one needs to go back to a source, or assist someone else with information from a source they’ve researched, it’s a much smoother process when the precise source has been noted.
John Jernigan is now working on YouTube channels, such as side-to-side videos showing historical pictures next to modern views of the same location. The Jernigans also plan to help the King City Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture with the history portion of its upcoming visitor’s center.
Copies of the new book are available locally at Sol Treasures, 519 Broadway St., and at the Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum at San Lorenzo Park in King City.

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The presets available cover the most common documents that you might need to scan:
For scanning documents and creating a PDF with multiple text files in it we recommend using the black-and-white preset from Adobe Acrobat and also setting the scanner to 300dpi. This is the optimum value for OCR.
Once you finished scanning, it’s time to continue with Adobe Acrobat to combine all files into a single PDF, adjust the text, edit images, add password protection, or create an interactive form.
Check out the best scanner software that perfectly matches your Windows 10 computer.
Retyping an old document is time-consuming. You can save time by using Soda PDF’s OCR engine to convert scanned documents and images into searchable PDF files.
With this OCR feature, you can also automatically detect the text along with images. You can manually choose which part of your PDF you want to scan.
This PDF editor is among the best in its field, especially if we consider the quality-price ratio. Just like the other programs mentioned so far, Soda PDF also allows you to easily edit PDFs.
The software exists in two different versions: Standard and Pro. The Pro version allows you to transform scanned PDF files into editable and searchable documents.
Both versions only allow you to edit and convert PDF files. The only difference is that you have some plus-minus advanced functions.
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Compatible Systems: Soda PDF is compatible with both Windows and macOS & IOS.
Turn any PDF, image, or scanned document into a fully editable file with the OCR feature!
ABBYY is an international software producer specialized in creating programs for OCR reading and work with scanned documents. FineReader has top reviews and awesome ratings from big publications.
We’ll see below what does it have and how is it the perfect software for your work with scanned documents. FineReader allows you to edit, review, and convert scans and PDf documents.
The editing feature comes in handy as it allows you not only to edit but also annotate the documents opened in FineReader and share the work with other users.
The compare feature helps you to track the changes that have been made to a document. Also, it has one of the best OCR engines in the world, and this is probably the most used feature of this software.
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You can easily convert scanned documents to Word, Excel, PDF, and other formats with great precision. Forget about copying manually texts, just use ABBYY FineReader.
You can get this software for free from the official website, but it will have only some basic features. However, it is good to try such a tool, especially if you really need it and will like to buy it after.
Abby FineReader not only helps you scan but also lets you edit digital and scanned PDF documents!
Readiris Pro is more specifically OCR software for scanning documents into an editable format.
This is one of the best software packages for OCR scanning that’s compatible with all Windows versions and all TWAIN scanners and can convert documents and images to a variety of formats.
The software scans documents to PDF, ePub, RTF, TXT, ODT, HTML, GIF, BMP JPEG, PNG, and TIFF file formats, which is more than most.
Note that the OCR scanning isn’t just limited to documents, as the software also extracts text from image formats.
With this program, users can convert their MS Office documents into audio, ePub, or image file formats. Readiris has a variety of PDF options for merging, indexing, compressing, and organizing PDF pages.
Batch OCR is also a handy tool that enables you to convert a batch of documents from a selected folder. Another great thing about Readiris Pro is that it dramatically compresses file sizes for saved documents.
So this scanning application has plenty of more advanced options and tools.
Readiris Pro will surprise you with the best OCR engine and will convert PDF documents to Office formats.
Icecream PDF Converter is obviously focused on PDF conversion to and from practically any format including ODC, JPG, TIFF, XLS, EPS, GIF, WMF, HTML, PNG, and more.
You can even OCR a document into an editable PDF format or even better, convert multiple files with just one click thanks to the batch processing feature.
Privacy-sensitive Icecream Converter is compatible with all versions of Windows including older ones such as Vista and XP, which makes things even simpler for you.
Let’s quickly look at its key features:
Drag & drop multiple files, keep your private information safe, merge files into one PDF, and immediately edit Word documents.
OmniPage Standard is another highly rated OCR software package that provides very accurate text scanning. This software has Standard and Ultimate versions that are both compatible with Windows.
The Standard version should be perfectly sufficient for most as it still incorporates the best OCR technology. The Ultimate version has extra drawings, a digital signature, and scan-to folder tools.
OmniPage Standard is compatible with any TWAIN, WIA, or ISIS scanners.
The software supports a greater range of output formats than most alternatives including MS Office applications, PDF, HTML, Corel Word Perfect, XML, CSV, and more besides.
OmniPage’s 3-D correct technology gives it an edge when it comes to accuracy, and you can further enhance scan accuracy with some of the software’s enhancement tools.
For processing multiple documents, Omnipage includes a Batch OCR tool with which users can select a folder for automatic processing.
This program can also do OCR conversions in 123 languages. As such, it’s little wonder this is one of the industry-leading scanner software packages.
Business-oriented software has an in-built scanner for translating sensitive data and is ideal for sharing and finding files in real-time.
Those are several Windows 10 scanner software packages that can enhance scanning in various ways.
They’ll give you more accurate scans, faster scans, OCR text extraction, batch-scanning tools, PDF options, image-editing options, and more besides.
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Scanners are obsolete. Use your iPhone to scan documents and send PDF versions.
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Our mobile devices have usurped the functions of many other gadgets, including clocks, calculators, and MP3 players. But did you know that your iPhone and iPad can also scan documents and send them as PDFs?
For most of us, owning an actual scanner is a waste of time, money, and space. The ability to point your phone at an item and produce an instant capture is extremely useful and diminishes the need for extra tech.
On top of that, being able to quickly save or send that file as a PDF makes old-timey scanners seem obsolete—and perhaps they are.
Let’s discuss how you can use your iPhone or iPad to scan a document and save it as a PDF.
The most obvious solution to scan documents and save them as a PDF with your iPhone or iPad camera is by using a PDF scanner app.
With the Scanner App – PDF Editor, you can easily scan documents using your iPhone and then save them as PDF or JPG formats.
This PDF scanner app offers additional features such as combining multiple PDFs, a built-in OCR tool, and adding digital signatures, to name a few.
Furthermore, the Scanner App has a clean user interface that anyone can quickly learn to use.
If you want to scan a document using this app, you first need to install the Scanner App – PDF Editor.
To scan your document, tap the Plus + button and choose the Scan With Camera option. After that, place your iPhone camera over your documents to scan them.
Install the PDF Scanner app on your iPhone for free.
Before you even consider scanning a document, you should first place the item in a favorable position.
For example, if the doc you want to capture is mostly white, you should place it on a darker, contrasting surface. Because iOS automatically detects your documents, attempting to camouflage them will result in confusion and unpredictable outcomes.
Here’s how to scan a document using the Notes app on your iPhone or iPad:

Open the Notes app on your iOS device
Tap the Compose icon to create a new note
Tap the Camera icon
Select Scan Documents
Frame your document with the camera, and the screen will flash yellow when the scan completes
Tap Save when you’re happy with your scans and choose a destination to export as a PDF
Your device will continue to capture documents until you cancel the process, which is handy when scanning multiple items.
If you want to manually adjust the area scanned, you can tap the Large round button at the bottom of the screen and drag the corner circles on your document to the appropriate positions.
You can also review and edit any captures by tapping the thumbnail of the latest scan. From here, you can make alterations, opt to Retake the picture, or tap Done to exit.
If you have saved scans in your Notes app, you can share them as PDFs at any time. Here’s how:
When exporting from Notes as a PDF, you’ll need to ensure that you open the scanned image before tapping Share. Attempting to share the note itself will save the file in the incorrect format.
When sharing, you can either opt to send the file to someone or store it in another app or folder on your device. The choice is yours.
Because scanning documents with your iPhone or iPad is easy, proponents of traditional scanning methods have a difficult argument to make.
Sure, an old-timey scanner may produce superior results when capturing photographs and attempting to achieve perfect flatness, but most of us aren’t looking for those kinds of outcomes.
In many cases, bypassing the iOS scan feature completely and simply snapping a shot of a document at a questionable angle in poor lighting is good enough.
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Matt is an Australian freelance writer with a degree in creative and critical writing. Prior to commencing his studies, he worked in tech support and gained valuable insights into technology and its users. His true passion is telling stories, and he hopes to one day write a novel worthy of publication.
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Very fast, very accurate, very not cheap
I focus on printer and scanner technology and reviews. I have been writing about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. I have authored or co-authored 20 books—including titles in the popular Bible, Secrets, and For Dummies series—on digital design and desktop publishing software applications. My published expertise in those areas includes Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, as well as prepress imaging technology. (Over my long career, though, I have covered many aspects of IT.)
The swift, accurate Epson DS-970 is a sheetfed desktop scanner designed for high-volume document management and archiving, as well as any other application that requires rapid data collection.
Epson’s DS-970 Color Duplex Workgroup Document Scanner ($1,299) is a sheetfed desktop document scanner designed primarily for high-volume document management and archiving. A step up Epson’s line from our recent Editors’ Choice, the Epson DS-870, the DS-970 is faster, and its daily volume rating is higher by 2,000 pages. It’s one of the fastest models of its kind we’ve reviewed in some time. Like the DS-870 and the Epson WorkForce ES-865 we looked at earlier this year, the DS-970’s performance and accuracy are near-flawless, though (like with those two Epson models) getting an Ethernet interface requires a costly add-on module. Overall, we found little to dislike about this workhorse, except that its list price is $500 higher than the DS-870’s. If your primary requirement is raw speed, however, the DS-970 is one of the strongest contenders available—short of shelling out several grand for an enterprise machine like the PCMag favorite Xerox DocuMate 6710.
Measuring 8.5 by 11.6 by 8.3 inches (HWD) with its trays closed and weighing 7.9 pounds, the DS-970 is the same size and girth as last year’s DS-870 and this year’s ES-865. As you have probably already deduced, it comes in the same chassis. (The main visual difference is in the chassis coloration between the Workgroup and WorkForce lines.) The Workgroup-family DS-970 is also slightly smaller than many of its immediate competitors, including the Visioneer Patriot H60 and Patriot H80, the Brother ImageCenter ADS-3600W, and the HP ScanJet Enterprise Flow 7000 s3. (All but the H80 are older Editors’ Choice models.)
Frankly, none of these higher-end screamers takes up much desk space, especially when idle. With their trays extended and ready for action, though, all of them increase in length by a factor of three or more. Despite their initial small footprints, you’ll need to leave room in front and behind (mostly in front, where the output tray deploys) to extend their trays.
One of the DS-970’s most notable features is its 100-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF), which has the same capacity as the ADFs on the other two Epson models discussed. Most of the others come with 80-sheet feeders, which are more capacious than average and impressive enough, but they all come up short of the two Patriot models. Each of those boasts a whopping 120-sheet feeder.
Increasingly popular on desktop scanners, especially higher-end, higher-priced models, are intricate control panels that let you configure scan jobs from the front of the machine, instead of via the interface software. As you can see below, most of the DS-970’s functions are accessible through a small color display that you navigate via buttons to the right.
In addition, the control settings (which you can customize) interact with the bundled software, which I’ll talk about below.
The DS-970 has a maximum daily duty cycle of 9,000 scans, compared to 10,000 for the H60 and H80. The HP ScanJet 7000 is rated at 7,500 scans, the DS-860 at 7,000. The Brother ADS-3600W is not quite as robust as these others (5,000 scans daily), but it comes with an impressive feature list, including several types of connectivity: Ethernet, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, and a USB port for scanning to USB memory devices. It has the distinction of being one of very few scanners to achieve a 4.5-star rating from PC Labs.
Most of the others support only USB, though some, including the DS-970 and the other Epson scanners mentioned here, support upgrades that provide Ethernet. What Epson calls a Network Interface Unit is a pricey $349.99 accessory for this unit.
The DS-970 and several other Epson scanners come with three-year warranties featuring next-day replacement, suggesting that Epson believes that this high-volume workhorse can stand up to heavy use for well over a thousand days.
As I alluded to earlier, Epson distributes two different series of business scanners: its Workgroup line, and its WorkForce models. Essentially, aside from the colors of their chassis, the hardware is pretty much the same.
The difference is the software. The Workgroup series ships with Epson Scan 2, a driver and scanner interface utility, and Document Capture Pro, Epson’s scanner back end and document-management and -archiving software. WorkForce scanners ship with ScanSmart, a modular driver and scanner interface, and Epson Scan 2. The Workgroup scanners also come with third-party drivers, ISIS and TWAIN, for connecting to the myriad apps (such as Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Publisher) that support scanning directly into them. 
Epson Scan 2 is a scanner interface, and a rather good one at that. What your IT people will like about it is that it is configurable in three different modes based on user experience: Home, Office, and Professional. Each mode presents a set of controls that provide the user with choices based on his or her scanner expertise. As you can see in the image below, Home Mode offers fewer than half the options of Professional Mode.
Epson Document Capture Pro is a competent and highly developed document-management program. It’s designed to let you create and configure your own document-management system that processes and saves your scans to one or several file-management destinations. (These can range from image or searchable PDFs to email, FTP, or a printer.) Or you can scan to WebDAV, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, SugarSync, and other cloud and file-archiving sites.
WorkForce-series scanners come with ScanSmart, which can do some rudimentary file management with your scans, but nothing like what Document Capture Pro is capable of. With ScanSmart, though, the modular design lets you insert, well, smart modules or plug-ins. One is ScanSmart Accounting Edition; it’s designed for scanning receipts, invoices, and other accounting documents into QuickBooks, Excel, and other popular bookkeeping applications. Currently, though, there are only two iterations of ScanSmart: the standard driver and interface, and the Accounting Edition.
If you desire, you can upgrade to ScanSmart for $99.
Epson rates the DS-970 at 85 one-sided pages per minute (ppm) and 170 two-sided images per minute (ipm), where each page side counts as an image. This edges out the Visioneer Patriot H80 (80ppm and 160ipm) for the title. The Epson DS-870’s rating is 65ppm and 130ipm; the Patriot H60 is rated at 70ppm and 140ipm; HP’s ScanJet 7000 s3 is rated at 75ppm and 150ipm; and Brother’s ADS-3600W is a little slower at 50ppm and 100ipm.
I tested the DS-970 over USB from our standard Intel Core i5 testbed PC running Windows 10 Pro and Epson Document Capture Pro. It scanned our one-sided 25-page text document—without the lag time, or the time it takes to convert the scanned text to a desired file format and save the file—at an average rate of 87.5ppm and our two-sided 25-page (50-side) text document at 182.2ipm. 
As you can see, in both modes, the DS-970 exceeded its ratings, but then at this point, without any formatting, the scanned text is pretty much useless. So this next set of numbers includes the lag time required for the scanner to hand off the scan data to the computer and Document Capture Pro. The DS-970 and the PC scanned and converted the 25 one-sided text pages and saved them to image PDF at 78.9ppm. The duplex image PDF speed was 176.2ipm.
The less-endowed DS-870 churned the same text pages to image PDF at an average rate of 69ppm and 139ipm, while HP’s ScanJet 7000 managed 70ppm and 143ipm. The Patriot H60 did 69ppm and 136.4ipm, while its beefier sibling (the H80) hit 81.1ppm and 162.2ipm. Brother’s more versatile but markedly slower ADS-3600W managed average speeds of 46.2ppm and 96.8ipm. As you can see, the scores between the Visioneer H80 and the Epson DS-970 are quite close, with the former beating the latter in simplex mode by a few pages per minute, and the latter beating the former in duplex mode by a more significant 14ipm. 
Next, I ran a different series of tests, timing the DS-970 and software as it worked on scanning and converting our two-sided pages to searchable PDF. (This is the more versatile, editable format used in many applications, including document management and archiving.) Here, the DS-970 scanned, converted, and saved our 25-page, two-sided text document in 21 seconds, which is incredibly fast. Over the years, a few of the scanners we’ve tested, including the DS-870 (24 seconds), have come close, but looking back through our test database since mid-2016, the only other scanner that speedy was the Xerox DocuMate 6710, an ultra-high-volume enterprise scanner that sells for more than $4,000.
Comparatively, the HP ScanJet 7000 scanned the same 25-page document to searchable PDF in 44 seconds; the Patriot H60 and H80 took 28 and 27 seconds, respectively; and the ADS-3600W was the slowest, at 48 seconds. 
Speed is important, but optical character recognition (OCR) accuracy is just as critical. Having to go back and correct multiple errors in scanned text is very time-consuming and defeats the point of the exercise. The DS-970 managed to scan error-free down to 5 points in our Arial text samples and to 6 points in our Times New Roman ones. With accuracy down to 5-point type for both fonts, the DS-870 did a little better, but both are among the best showings we’ve seen. 
Three of the other four scanners mentioned here managed error-free scans down to 6-point type on both the Arial and Times New Roman test pages, and the Brother ADS-3600W managed 6 points on the Arial page and 8 points for Times New Roman, which isn’t bad, either (especially since I suspect the software engine has been updated a few times since that 2016 test). The bottom line is that all these scanners deliver solid accuracy, but the DS-870’s showing was best.
The Epson DS-970 is a terrific high-volume desktop document scanner, one of the fastest around. Like our recent Editors’ Choice the DS-870, it’s fast and accurate, and it comes with admirable software. I would have gladly recommended it for an Editors’ Choice as well, except that its $500 surcharge over its slightly less robust sibling is steep, especially if you need to add the $350 Ethernet module to network the scanner. If, however, you need raw speed, the DS-970 is one of the most tempting options on the market. (If you can give up some speed and volume to gain access for the network users and smartphone and tablet crowd in your organization, the flexible Brother ADS-3600W might be a more logical pick.)
In any case, the DS-970 is all about speed and accuracy—a fit blend for document management and archiving, or any enterprise where capturing large volumes of data as fast as you can is warranted. Only you know if the premium price for the sky-high capacity and speed is worth it for what you do. Hold out for a few months, however, and we suspect this scanner will start popping up online for several hundred dollars less, making it a much better value.
The swift, accurate Epson DS-970 is a sheetfed desktop scanner designed for high-volume document management and archiving, as well as any other application that requires rapid data collection.
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I focus on printer and scanner technology and reviews. I have been writing about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. I have authored or co-authored 20 books—including titles in the popular Bible, Secrets, and For Dummies series—on digital design and desktop publishing software applications. My published expertise in those areas includes Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, as well as prepress imaging technology. (Over my long career, though, I have covered many aspects of IT.)
In addition to writing hundreds of articles for PCMag, over the years I have also written for many other computer and business publications, among them Computer Shopper, Digital Trends, MacUser, PC World, The Wirecutter, and Windows Magazine. I also served as the Printers and Scanners Expert at About.com (now Lifewire).
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