Dropbox is an application used to scan photos and documents. Today we will tell you how to make a PDF by scanning a document with Dropbox.
With this app, available for Android and iPhone devices, you can scan whiteboards, images, receipts, sketches and everything you can think of.
How to make a PDF by scanning a document with Dropbox on Android and iPhone
The app works similarly on both devices. We are going to explain how you can make a PDF by scanning a document in Dropbox.
First of all, you need to download the application on your device from the latest version of the Google Play Store or App Store, which is available for free.
Then you must follow the corresponding steps to create an account in Dropbox, which is also free and will not take you more than 10 minutes to complete.
Open the app on your device and log into your Dropbox account. Next, to scan a new document, you must click on the “+” icon. The next thing to do is choose Scan Document. In the event that you have not granted the permissions to the app, you must do so.
Once you have done it, you can take a photo of what you want to transform into a document or select one that you already have in the gallery. To do this, you must click on the photos icon that you have in the lower-left corner.
In the event that you take a photo, the application will define the shape of the object you are going to scan. You must make sure that:
- The document is not folded
- Have enough light to be seen clearly, but not dazzled
- Place your mobile on what you are photographing as straight as possible
- Include only what you want to scan.
You can scan more images or move on to edit the document. If what you are scanning is something that has several pages, we recommend that you scan all the images together so that they are later saved in a single document.
To do this, click on the “+” icon that you have at the bottom of the screen in the preview of the image you just scanned. When you have finished adding all the images, click on next at the top of the screen.
Now you just have to edit and organize the scanned image. To do this, in the document preview you can edit it by clicking on the icon with the three lines at the bottom of the screen.
You can modify the area of the scanned image manually by moving the sky dots that surround the image. If you want to organize the scanned pages, press Organize for a few seconds at the bottom of the screen.
When you have finished giving all the adjustments, click on Save as. You must give the file a name and configure the file type. You can choose JPG, JPEG, PNG or PDF. In the case that there are more than one image, that is to say, that the document has several pages, it only allows you to save them in PDF.
Then set the image quality by sliding your finger to the left to below or to the right to make the image quality high.
Finally, choose a location to save the file and click on OK to close and save the changes.
Some features of Dropbox
- Automatically detect text in Dropbox Business version scanned documents in PDF files, with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function.
- Scans images and documents detecting what type of file it is.
- It has automatic and intelligent crop detection. You can modify the area to crop manually in the edit.
- If you choose a blackboard format, you have three backgrounds to choose from. White, black, original.
- Allows you to adjust the contrast to improve image quality.
- Smart name suggestion based on your scanned documents.
- Rotation and intelligent arrangement of the document. If you didn’t get the picture right, it automatically accommodates it.
- Online cloud storage to avoid taking up storage space on your device or have it as a backup.
We hope this article on how to scan a PDF document in Dropbox has been helpful to you. If you have any questions, you can leave them in the comments so we can help you.