Scan documents with Notes
Say hello to the paperless everything with the scanning feature in Notes
REQUIRES
iOS 15 or later
YOU WILL LEARN
How to use the full power of the iOS scanning tool
IT WILL TAKE
10 minutes
GENIUS TIP
The better the lighting conditions, the better the results — especially if you want Notes to perform character recognition on the scan.
IF YOU WANT a brilliant example of how far phone technology has come in just a few years, the scanner built into iOS 15 is it. You can scan entire documents and turn them into searchable, editable text in seconds. Remember how hard it used to be to persuade huge flatbed scanners to scan legibly, let alone perform OCR? We used to spend more time fixing the errors in scanned and optically recognized documents than it would have taken to simply retype them.