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The scanned photos should be looking good in a slideshow on the display of your Mac you will be using ten years from now. For prints it is fine, but I do not scan to create prints but to view the photos in a slideshow on a computer.

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Obviously the Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro is your best option for handwriting, but using your fingers on an iPhone can still get the job done fine.I'd really go for more than 600 samples per inch for the scanner resolution.

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If you need to add annotations or a signature to something, choose Apple’s “Markup” from that share menu, where you’re free to draw all over the document. To save or share them elsewhere, just tap and hold on the document and pick from the various third-party apps on your iPhone or iPad. At any point, you can just hit “Save” in the bottom right corner to drop your scan into the original note you started.īut if you’re like me, you probably don’t want to keep scans inside your notes. Once you’ve finished one scan, Notes will put you right back in the camera view since the assumption is that you might have a multi-page document or contract to capture. Receipts and other documents have looked super sharp in my tests, which led to me ditching other scanning apps altogether. The old business card I used here was pretty worn and terrible looking, which explains all those splotches of gray. So if you’re in a situation where you don’t have time to square things up, it’ll still work great.

That’s one of the most impressive aspects of Apple’s tool. (See below for final result.)ĭon’t worry if you end up snapping the picture of your document from an angle, as Notes will automatically correct for this and straighten everything out. Even if you’re pretty off angle, Apple’s scanner does an admirable job of creating something usable. If you fire the shutter yourself, Notes will let you move around four corner points to line them up with the document’s edges the app does a good job figuring this stuff out without much help, in my experience. You can tap the shutter button yourself to capture the document immediately or simply hold your iPhone or iPad focused on the document for a few seconds and it’ll automatically go off at a moment when your hands are steady. There’s also a “photo” choice that basically just snaps an ordinary picture without optimizing it as a document scan. You can also adjust this after the fact, so it’s fine to stick with the defaults. But if you’d prefer grayscale or black and white (which really cranks up the contrast), just tap the icon of three circles up there and change it. The default settings will capture documents in color. But pay attention to that top row of icons. Once you tap that, the camera opens and asks you to point it at whatever document you’re trying to digitize. The menu that comes up will offer a few options - this is also the tool you’d use to add a photo or sketch to your note - but the “Scan Document” option is the one you want. Inside of any note, hit the + symbol above the keyboard. To try out Apple’s built-in scanner for yourself, open Notes. If you’ve been using a third-party app for this purpose until now - and there are several great ones - you can probably uninstall it in favor of Apple’s own solution. If there’s a business card, receipt, or any other document you want to save or mark up, this tool makes getting it on your iPhone or iPad dead simple.

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One of the most useful tricks in Apple’s iOS 11 update is found inside the Notes app: it’s a document scanner.

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