How to Quickly Scan Documents

How to Quickly Scan Documents Using
Android and Google Drive or an iPhone and Dropbox

Dick Eastman has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware, software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He built his first home computer in 1980.

Dick Eastman · August 24, 2016 · Genealogy Basics

Ben Stegner has written an article and created a video that will interest many genealogists. How to Quickly Scan Documents Using Android and Google Drive describes how to go paperless without the need any hardware other than your smartphone. You can actually scan documents with nothing more than your Android phone. You can read Ben Stegner’s article and watch the video athttp://goo.gl/6v5KGD.
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You can also perform the same functions with an Android phone and Evernote. See http://goo.gl/ekDILO for details.

You can also perform the same functions with an Android phone and Evernote. See http://goo.gl/ekDILO for details.

You can also use the same techniques with an iPhone and with Dropbox. Assuming you have the Dropbox app installed on your iPhone, open the Dropbox app on your iPhone, tap . . .

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the + (plus sign) button, and choose Scan Document. The iPhone takes a picture of the document being :”scanned.” After scanning the document, the next screen is the Edit view. The icons on the bottom of this view represent the actions you can take to edit your scan. Finish your editing and then tap Next to enter the Settings view. Name your file and decide on a file type and then decide where to save your document. Finally, touch SAVE.


With the iPhone and the Dropbox app, you can also save scan up to ten pages of a document and save the file as a single .PDF file.
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Details on all this may be found at https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9244.