Paper to PDF
Scan a piece of paper from your phone and convert it into a PDF file.
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Scan a piece of paper from your phone and convert it into a PDF file.
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Assuming you don't have access to a high-quality printer/scanner, we need to find alternative ways to take your paper and turn it into a scanned document, ready to be shared. Your phone most likely has a really powerful camera that we can use to make a PDF. Let's find a scanning app that works well for you and then send it up to our Google Drive. So you can share and store it.
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The Google Drive app on Android has a built-in scanner! Scan your files and add them to the correct folder all in one scan. What a time to be alive!
Take a photo of the document you'd like to scan.
Open the Google Drive app .
In the bottom right, tap Add .
Tap Scan .
Adjust scan area: Tap Crop .
Take photo again: Tap Re-scan current page .
Scan another page: Tap Add .
To save the finished document, tap Done .
