Back at the OETC conference in February I was taking pictures of a presenter’s slides when I noticed this icon: Pressing it opened up a whole new way for me to take notes with my phone. Live Text I have been using the iOS Live Text feature for awhile. It allows you to copy text…
I struggled with this, jumping through hoops with the Notes app until I found out that I can scan directly to Google Drive with the Files app. Android users can gloat to their iPhone brethren since the Google Drive app on Android can scan directly. These directions will work with any cloud storage service, as…
Watch how to scan documents with the Google Drive app on your Android phone. Check out my other video if you want to scan documents with your iPhone.
Watch and see how you can use your iPhone or iPad to scan in documents with the Notes.app and then share them to Google Drive.
The Android Google Drive app has a very cool feature, the ability to scan documents directly to Google Drive. Now, you may be asking, can’t I just upload a picture of a document to Google Drive? Yes you can, but if you use the scanning feature, it will crop the document and de-skew it so…
Source: Adobe Scan Digital PDF Scanner (iPhone), Adobe Scan: PDF Scanner with OCR, PDF Creator (Android) I’ve written about scanning documents with your smartphone, and Adobe Scan is another option. What follows is what I saw using the app on an iPhone. The experience may be different under Android. After starting the app, you are…
We’re all doing a lot of work from home, and some times we need to scan documents. Without the school copier, how can we scan documents? If you have a smartphone, you can also scan! Scanning vs taking a picture The simplest way to scan is to take a picture of the document. Taking a…
Something many people don’t know is that these days you can 3d scan any object with just your phone camera. It’s called photogrammetry, it’s really cool… The idea behind photogrammetry is that you take lots of photos (50 to 1,000 to even more) from different angles of an object, left, right, up, down, front, behind…
A lot of schools have their copiers set up to scan documents, which can be delivered in your email in a multitude of formats. The format usually is a black & white PDF, but what if you want color? Or have some photographs to scan? That’s where an app like Camscanner (iOS & Android) comes in…