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Few tips for the scanning feature…
In the files app, “Scan Documents” has also always been located in the menu (ellipses button at the top-right)… no need to create folders and hold on empty spaces. Auto scan is significantly less buggy if there is a lot of contrast between your paper and the background (so set a white piece of paper on dark surface like a countertop or even a couch).
Cool. Still should be an icon.
My countertop is black. Not a problem.
I’ve had a helluva time using Notes to scan documents and export them as proper PDFs. Had no idea files could also do it. Is that the proper way?
Yes, Notes is only good if you want the page in a note for adding to.
If you want to scan a document Files is better. I still use Scanner Pro though as I paid for it some years back haha.
Strait from Apple: Yes.
I just realized that I don't know how to do it properly. I just say "hey Siri scan documents" and it opens right up
And here I am, iPhone user since 8 years and I never knew that scanning documents is an integrated feature. I always use an app for that 🥺
It’s relatively new.
From my perspective, once you use the Notes app to make a PDF you go right back to your third-party app.
Can also scan using Freeform app
What problem did you have exporting the PDF from Notes, and what version of iOS are you using? I just tested exporting a multi-page scanned PDF from Notes to Files, and it seemed to work fine with iOS 17.1.1.
iOS adds a white background to the scanned pages to create a uniform page size when exporting (e.g. from Notes to Files) while the original scan in both Notes and Files just lets each page be the same size as the original scan. I wish there was a way to control it, since sometimes that behavior is nice and other times… less so. On the other hand, the functionality of uniform page sizes comes in handy when creating layouts like four per page (available in the Print menu, which can then be exported as another PDF).
Adobe Scan does a pretty great job.