Smartphones are becoming powerful with each passing day. What was earlier used for communication is now capable of delivering a powerful gaming experience and photography experience. The new-generation smartphones are capable enough to replace laptops and PCs to some extent. That’s specifically with the usage of professional tools such as MS office and others.
And the market is majorly dominated by Google‘s Android and iOS devices. The former has a larger ratio due to the affordability factor and also the availability of numerous third-party mobile applications. We now have some of the popular PC apps available for download on the Google Play Store. And you get multiple options if you go to download any such app.
Document scanning is one such key task that a modern-day smartphone is capable of performing. And you wouldn’t require a PC or laptop for the same if you own a new-age Android phone. There are a plethora of Android applications that allow document scanning. But how exactly can you turn your Android smartphone into a document scanner? Here in this article, we have listed all the steps:
How To Scan Documents Using Android Smartphone?
In order to turn your Android smartphone into a document scanner, you will need either need to download a third-party application or use the Google Drive app. If you don’t want to use the dedicated Google app then Adobe Scan and Microsoft Office Lens are the two other popular options. We have listed the steps to use the Google Drive document scanner since this is a pre-installed app on most Android phones.
Step 1: Unlock your Android phone and launch the Google Drive application.
Step 2: On the bottom right corner, you will see the “Add” option. Click on it.
Step 3: Select the “Scan” button.
Step 4: Capture the photo of the document of which you need a scanned copy.
Step 5: Now make the required adjustments to the scanned document.
Step 6: Click on Done.
The process of scanning a document using the remaining two apps, i.e., Microsoft Office Lens and Adobe scan is almost similar. You would need to capture the image of the document and make a scanned copy.
