I find the quality of the photos from my phone to be terrible: wrong brightness, wrong color balance, wrong focus, wrong contrast, wrong orientation, motion blur, etc. The quality of the documents from the Fujitsu scanner is top notch. And the feeder is amazingly fast, specs say 20 ppm, which I think means 20 sheets, or 40 pages/minute. I also hate typing long file names on a phone keyboard. But if it works for you, then it works for you.

Actually the scanning apps like Microsoft Lens are quite good.

During the WFH situation, I've used it extensively to scan kids homework almost on an everyday basis, to send it to teachers.

I've used it for documents too. And it works just fine.

I use M.S. Office Lens at work every week. You can free-crop photos, compose into PDF, reorder pages, etc and save to OneDrive which quickly gets a phone PDF onto my desktop. Brilliant!

OfficeLens also had an app you could load on desktops. I’m sure it was for tablets, but the ability to take a photo, free-form crop and save to PDF was fantastic. Alas, my old install of the app still works, but won’t convert to PDF anymore.

The ScanSnap is a business quality scanner.You can put in a stack of documents into the sheet-feeder and you will get high quality scans out as fast as a printer.The smartphone scanner app are like an emergency workaround in comparison.

Agree here. I have a capable scanner with document feeder, ocr, export to FTP etc.

But I can also just open Prizmo on my iPhone, photograph 15 pages in 45 seconds, export as PDF and be done with it.

In both cases the end result is a readable PDF, which serves its purpose.

I love the feel of a physical scanner though, especially the process of aligning the paper. I suppose the difference is like a phone camera vs a DSLR.

If you’re processing volume, the scansnap is magic. 1-2 pages at a time, the phone is better.