Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let me show you how you can scan documents using just your iPhone.
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So I knew my scanner would stop working when I upgraded to macOS Catalina.
That's because, unfortunately, the company decided not to upgrade their very old software.
So I needed a new solution but I didn't want to buy a new scanner.
Well, you can easily scan things with your iPhone.
In fact iOS 13 makes this easier than every before especially if you're using iCloud.
In my iPhone I'm going to go to the File app.
The Files app is where you can see all of your iCloud files.
So the great thing about this is that I see the same files on my Mac as I do here on my
iPhone.
So I can scan something in.
It'll go to my iCloud Documents folder and then I have it on my Mac.
I don't have to transfer or do anything else with it later on.
I could put it exactly where I want.
I could even name the file what I want right here on my iPhone.
So now that I'm in the Files app I go to the folder I want.
I created a folder called Scans in my Documents folder.
That's where I am now.
If I swipe down from the top a little bit I have three dots there at the top left corner.
I can select that and you can see one of the options is to Scan Documents.
So I do that and it will activate the camera.
Now I can position it over the document there.
As soon as it gets the document in it will automatically take the photo.
It has a button for me to do it manually if it's not quite getting it.
But it was able to get it easily enough with this document.
It's a nice white piece of paper with a black background here.
It grabbed it.
So now I just press the Save button and it will save it there right into that folder.
If I look on my Mac I'll see that file appear right there on my Mac as well.
Now from here I can easily rename it.
I can just tap that document and you can see I can rename it to what I want.
So I'll just delete this name here and name it something else and done.
Of course I can go to any folder I want in iCloud so I can have all sorts of folders
arranging my scanned documents like I want.
But what about multiple page documents?
One of the great things about my old scanner is you could feed this stuff in and it would
scan it right away.
Now doing it this way is not going to beat the speed for a scanner like that.
But you could still do it.
So I'm going to arrange things here putting the documents in a stack and I'm going to
go and scan these in.
So I'm going to do the same thing I did before.
Tap those three dots there, Scan Documents, and I'm going to grab that first page.
When it grabs it, it says ready next scan at the bottom.
So now what I could do is take away that first page.
I've got the second page underneath it and I can grab that one.
So I've got page two.
Let's go on to page three.
You could do a lot here with angles and such.
I can get this kind of at a bad angle if I'm forced to because of my situation.
Where I'm standing.
How the table is situated.
That kind of thing.
It's going to make the adjustments.
I can keep scanning until I get all the pages of this document.
When I'm done with the final page now I'm going to hit Save.
You can even see that next to Save is says six there for six pages.
Now it saves it here.
I've got my scanned document.
I could tap it.
I could rename it and see it on my Mac.
Let's take a look here on my Mac.
If I hit the Spacebar I'll go to QuickLook and you can see that the pages are nice and
straight even though I was taking them at angles.
As a matter of fact remember that third page I took at a pretty extreme angle.
I can pinch out here to go in and you can see the quality is pretty good.
Notice there are some controls here at the top as well.
You can choose to have the flash On, Off, or Automatic.
You could filter right here before you take the scan.
So you can go with Color, Gray Scale, Black and White, or Photo scan.
You can also switch the automatic shutter On or Off.
Then once you take the scan you have more options.
Just tap on the page at the bottom left.
Now you can use the Trash Can there to delete the page completely or use the Retake button
at the top right.
This is very useful when you're doing multiple page documents.
You can fix just this one page and not have to start again from scratch.
You'll also have the ability to Crop which goes back to the original photo and you can
change the edges of the document so it'll get the adjustments just right when it flattens
it.
You also have filters there and you can Rotate.
The thing I love about this the most is it's completely portable.
Wherever I have my iPhone I can do scans.
I don't need to be near my Mac.
So I can do this on the go.
I can scan receipts, for instance, right there at the store.
I can sign documents in an office somewhere and scan them right away.
I don't have to take a paper copy home to scan it.
In a lot of ways this is better than my old scanner even if it's not as fast when scanning
large numbers of pages.