Using CamScanner to Scan Documents

Have something to scan and send to your digital bookkeeper?  Let me show you how easy it is to use CamScanner to get it done.  First, download CamScanner to your smart device.

Open the app and you should be looking at this screen:

This is the app's homepage.  Press the camera option to open your device's camera and scan a document.

My wife and I took our son to Chick-Fil-A last night.  I'll use our receipt as an example.  I took quite a few shots.  Usually, you just need to take one.  I took some deliverately poor shots to demonstrate how Camscanner cleans those up.

Camscanner automatically crops and reads the receipt.  When you are done press the checkmark to return to the app's homepage.

You can see Camscanner has already focused and cropped the images.  Nice.  Look at the clarity!  Yes.  You can have the app recognize text if you like by pressing the "Recognize" button.  When you are ready to send off your images press the share icon at the top.  (You can also set up autosyncing too, but I won't explain that here.)

Select to send it as a PDF.  Then chose how to share it.  In this example I'll just email it to myself.  Easy.  There's much more to the app and a lot of cool things you to do but I think I'll leave this post here.  Let me know if you have any questions.