If you have ever been in a situation when you need to get a copy of a document you needed and it was in a hard copy, so u have to look for a photocopier, or maybe you don’t just like carrying a lot of papers around and you look so disorganized in the morning, worry no more! Your phone can be a scanner; with the following apps you problems are solved:



Genius Scan

It’s a very user friendly apps and scan your cards, documents and notes ,it enhances the images and tries to make it more presentable its free , but users can register and get premium services which allow you to upload scans directly to drop box and other cloud storage services.

CamScanner


CamScanner is one of the most popular mobile apps for “scanning” , it has a lot of features and is a delight for most users, it has very high ratings and it looks like an app you should try.

Google Drive

Most people use Google drive for cloud storage services but it also a document scanner, it also enhances the image quality, it saves it as PDF and updates it to your Google drive and by searching you drive for text related to the document you will be able to locate it.

Tips

1. Take scans from a central view, taking from angles might affect the documment

2. Be as close as possible and fill the entire frame

3. Make sure the area is well lit; some devices allow you to use your flash for lighting

4. Make sure the document is not covered by anything or framed to avoid refletions
Comments

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I love technological advancement

Camscanner user here. Simply the best.

Some documents scanned with camscanner

goldfish80: Camscanner user here. Simply the best.

Android?

I use myscan. .....buh it's kinda complicated for me.......

so I will try one of the above

u mke sense....one of da reason for joining dis platform, will download one asap ( camscanner right?)

cirmuell: Android?

Yep. I use it too. I scan all my documents with it and upload it on sites. The receiver wouldn't know you used your android phone

Ok

olashas:
Yep. I use it too. I scan all my documents with it and upload it on sites. The receiver wouldn't know you used your android phone

baby ur buriful

so whats the difference between these scanners and simply taking a pic of th document. ? useless

how possible will that work?

Khaynet: noted

olashas:
Yep. I use it too. I scan all my documents with it and upload it on sites. The receiver wouldn't know you used your android phone

Alright, I guess I should get mine too been looking forward to something like this, it will reduce the stress of always going to Cafés

chinnyonwu: so whats the difference between these scanners and simply taking a pic of th document. ? useless

u well so? You understand wetin op write??

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just downloaded camscanner now and tried it out

What of the BB users, any scanner for us

funshyboi: What of the BB users, any scanner for us

I just tried it... it works man.. I use a bb10 tho..

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Nice.

goldfish80: Camscanner user here. Simply the best.

I have ds app but dont just know ow to go about d scanning.

Thanks op

Wow,gonna try it out

Thank you..Op

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nice one

I decided to go with camscanner too. Very good. But please does anyone iknow anygood converting app. App that converts between pdf, excel, word files for andriod.

apk flying here and there

Ds thread is lyk God sent for I needed to scan some documents 2mao.wil try it out nd giv feedback. Tnx OP nd evry other contributors.