
Tap the Camera button at the bottom of the screen and select Scan Documents (yes, even if it’s a photo).Open the Notes app and create a new note (or select an existing one).
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Here’s how to use the Notes app to scan documents, photos and even add a handwritten signature using your fingertip. Here’s how to get going: For iPhone users Without OCR, when you scan, say, a newspaper article, it saves it as an image file on your phone, but you won’t be able to search for a keyword or text a friend specific sentences from within the article.

TALKING TECH NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our guide to the week's biggest tech newsĪlong with adding color and lighting correction to photos, today’s phones also boast “OCR” technology, which stands for “optical character recognition,” which can translate typewritten (and even handwritten) words into editable and searchable text. Obviously, a “scan” really means taking a “photo” of what you’re pointing the camera at, but the technology can go beyond that. Your iPhone or Android device is also ideal for digitizing old photos (in photo frames, albums, or hanging on the wall), documents (menus, contracts, vaccination proof), notes, business cards, whiteboards and receipts (ideal for expense tracking or reimbursement) – and then storing those images for when you need them or sending them to someone else, if desired, via email or text. It’s not only fast and convenient to scan something when away from your computer, but the quality is surprisingly good, thanks to much better camera sensors and smarter software.

You may have a flatbed scanner at home or perhaps one of those “all-in-one” printer/scanner/copier machines, but did you know your smartphone’s camera can also double as a flatbed scanner?
