hello everyone welcome to another video from windowslovers.com this is my host prajwal and in
today's video i'm going to show you how to quickly use your phone to scan a document and send it out
as email or save it as a pdf file or any other format for future purposes so let's get started
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future uploads and if you like tech all right so the application that i'm gonna use today is called
microsoft lens it's a free application available from microsoft that you can use on your iphone
on android for the purpose of this video i'm gonna use an iphone but the process to use this
application is also the same on an android phone as well the only difference is on an android phone
you'll have to go to your play store and download this application while on an iphone i'm gonna go
to app store and download the app all right so all you got to do is on if you're an iphone if you're
following me from an iphone you go to bottom right corner click on search and i have that up already
but what you want to do is you can search for microsoft lens as you can see on the top
do you want to search for microsoft lens all right you want to look for the one
that says microsoft corporation and then it says microsoft lens pdf scanner tap on the download
for you myself get if you haven't downloaded before since i've already downloaded before
in the past it's giving me the cloud icon now the download is complete so i'm going to tap on open
and it says you scan and clean your documents whiteboards and business cards so there's
different word different things you can scan you can scan a whiteboard you can scan a document this
can be used for multiple purposes and another thing another really nice thing is you can save
it as pdf so it's like a real pocket scanner it and it works really good once you start using
it you will see the potential and final thing it does it's asking you to access the camera which is
unique required for this applications tap on allow tap and allow again and it's going to
allow access to all the photos now what you want to do is since you are scanning a document you
can also scan white boards and stuff uh at the bottom you can scroll through from the bottom it
says business card when it's kind of photo and all that stuff so for the purpose of this video
i'm going to scan a document i'm going to tap on document you see the red box so basically what it
thinks is it thinks that whatever is inside the red box is the document so that's why you need
to have a separation between your document and the background or the surface you place a document on
so uh for example at the moment uh the both of them are white in color so that's where it's
getting a bit confused but if you place it on a different solid color it's a lot uh it's a lot
snappier but also you can you can adjust that later regardless so i'm going to go and snap it
and now what you want to do is on the top you just see let me adjust border after each scan
so and since that option is on what it allows you to do now is you can go ahead
and you can adjust these boxes so you will crop out the photo and whatever's inside the
box will be your document right for example i want to i just want the windows lovers.com
name on it nothing else like this so i'll select this and then click on confirm and as you can see
it has a cropped uh that part of the photo and you can go ahead and crop it more you can go and add
filters you can add text rotate it and all that stuff so after that's done what you want to do is
click on tap on done and there's different options so it says export to photo library you can save
it as an image you can save it as a pdf file you can save it to your onenote drive onenote document
you can save it to onedrive and at the bottom you can see there's an option that says share to mail
alright so you can tap on that now it says for example for me it says there's no mail account so
because i haven't set any default mail application for my iphone so if you don't have any default
mail application it will revert back to whatever other mail applications you might have for example
on my phone i have outlook so it's giving me in the outlook prompt but if you're not familiar
on how to set up a default mail applications all you can do is save as pdf and depending on where
you want to store it tap on that and and there's your pdf file and you can attach it to your email
from your browser or depending on how you use email on your phone or you can straight away
tap on mail and send it as an email all right so i hope that was helpful please make sure to give
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