It hasn’t ever been that elemental to create a PDF utilizing your phone. Several years ago, erstwhile I started handling my mother’s bills, I realized I needed a speedy measurement to scan her documents while I was astatine her home. Rather than resistance a scanner around, I recovered a useful Android app called Tiny Scanner that fto maine move insubstantial documents into easy-to-store PDFs utilizing my phone’s camera.
Later, Google introduced nan beta of its ain scanning app called Stack, truthful I began utilizing that to create galore of my PDFs. It offers speedy scans and categorization and was conscionable a small much nosy to use.
However, as is Google’s wont, that institution is now sunsetting Stack and giving immoderate (although not all) of nan app’s abilities to create, edit, and shop PDFs to Google Drive, nan retention work app that comes installed connected Android phones. (I suppose I should beryllium grateful that Google has incorporated astatine slightest immoderate of Slack’s features into Android’s Drive app, but nan useful categorization and different automatically added specifications are now gone, making it conscionable that overmuch much difficult for maine to find that 1 archive I request right now.)
So now, if you want to create a speedy PDF utilizing Drive, here’s really it works:
- Go to your Google Drive app (if by immoderate weird chance, your telephone doesn’t person Drive, look for it in nan Play Store).
- Lay retired your archive — connected a contrasting surface, if possible; I recovered it useful a batch amended that measurement — and pat nan camera icon (right supra nan +New button).
Screenshot: Google
Screenshot: Google
- The app will now find nan edges of your PDF utilizing a bluish outline. It will presume you want to usage Auto capture, which lets nan app itself fig retired nan document’s edges and instantly create a draught PDF.
- If you’re much of a do-it-yourself person, you tin pat connected nan Manual button conscionable nether your image, move your telephone astir to set nan outline, and past deed nan shutter fastener — but since you will beryllium capable to set nan cropping connected nan adjacent page anyway, you mightiness arsenic good fto Auto seizure do its thing. It’s faster.
- If you person already taken a image of nan document, location is besides a photo icon to nan near of nan shutter fastener that lets you prime an image from Photos instead.
- Either way, erstwhile you’ve sewage your draught PDF, you will beryllium automatically taken to a page wherever you tin edit it: harvest it to set nan outline, usage a filter, cleanable it up, retake it, aliases delete it.
- The aforesaid page lets you create a multi-page archive if you request 1 — conscionable pat connected nan plus icon conscionable nether nan image to adhd nan adjacent page.
- Happy pinch your document? Select Done successful nan apical correct corner, prime wherever successful Google Drive you want to spot it, and pat Save.
You tin besides edit an existing PDF:
Screenshot: Google
Screenshot: Google
- While successful Drive, pat connected nan PDF record you want to edit.
- Look for nan edit icon successful nan little correct corner. Tap connected that, and you tin constitute connected aliases item nan archive utilizing variously colored “ink.”
- Using nan icons connected apical of nan page, you tin besides adhd a remark aliases do a hunt wrong nan document.
- Tap nan 3 dots successful nan precocious correct corner, and you tin stock nan document, negociate entree to it, download it, aliases execute a number of different editorial tasks.
Of course, this isn’t everything you’d want to do pinch a PDF record — for example, you mightiness want to region a page, adhd text, aliases password-protect a document. In that case, unfortunately, you will astir apt person to usage Adobe Acrobat aliases immoderate different for-pay app.