You no longer need a separate scanner to transform paper documents into digital text. Here are a few ways to scan documents with your Samsung Galaxy A phone.

The process of scanning documents using a Samsung phone or tablet is deceptively seamless -- all you need to do is open the camera app and point your device at the document in question.

Using an Adobe app to snap, store and share those scans? That's new. Adobe Scan (Android | iOS) is a free tool that turns your phone into a document scanner.

Both devices can print an assortment of document types such as PDF, JPEG, TXT, etc directly from USB memory. Both devices can also scan documents and save them directly to the USB memory.