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Smart Scanner vs The Silver Searcher

A side-by-side look at Smart Scanner and The Silver Searcher. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Smart Scanner

Smart Scanner

Office & Productivity

Smart Scanner is an intelligent document scanning software that can automatically detect and crop documents in a scan. It has optical character recognition to extract text and makes scanned documents searchable. Useful for individuals or offices that need to digitize paper documents.

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The Silver Searcher

The Silver Searcher

Development

The Silver Searcher, also known as ag, is a code searching tool designed to be a faster alternative to grep. It ignores file patterns from ignored files and git history for faster searching.

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