PDF Document Scanners Chris Coyier

February 9, 2024

I’m still a Dropbox user, and a small feature I like on their mobile app is the Scan document option. You press the big blue + icon and it’s one of the options there.

It opens the camera, you point it at a document and hold steady, and it takes a scan of the document. Sometimes it’s tricky, you gotta have a contrasting background and not weird lighting and stuff. You can add multiple pages. Then when you’re done, you pick a folder, and it’s uploaded straight there. I’ve used it 100 times at least.

Looks like Evernote has a free one too that looks nice.

I didn’t know a similar feature was built into the Notes app on iOS! Ian Miller has the lowdown.

Open the Notes app that comes with your iPhone.

Press the new document icon on the lower right of screen.

Select the camera icon on the lower toolbar just above the keyboard.

From the popup menu select Scan Documents.

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