Scanning Scoresheets Using Your Phone or Tablet
Scan, make, and send PDF documents straight from your Android or iPhone
Scoresheet submittal must be in the form of a PDF Document.
Scan Documents Using Your Smartphone with a program or app on your phone by using your phones camera
and convert it to a PDF automatically for you. You will then email the scanned scoresheet to the WNYAHL.
PHONE APPS (these are suggestions as there are many that work equally well)
Genius Scan from Grizzly Labs for both android and iPhone, is a simple, cross-platform document scanner that makes
snapping quick images or generating PDFs of receipts, notes, sketches, or anything else as simple as a single tap. The app
automatically lines up, isolates, and enhances the final scan, bringing out text and making it more prominent in the final
image, and then converting the whole thing to PDF and keeping it in your library so you can email or share it later. Use
the free version not the paid version unless you require more features.
CamScanner is well known and well-loved, and is available for free for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Camscanner is
easy to use, scans any document to PDF directly, and performs OCR on your scanned documents to lift out important
bits like prices, dates, titles, and details.
Google Drive (Android/iOS) - Google Drive's apps for Android allows you to scan documents and even perform OCR
(optical character recognition) on text in the documents you're scanning.
iPhone SCANNING your iPhone has a built in scanner no app required
How to Scan and Send Documents with iPhone without an iOS app:
Here are the steps to scan a document to iPhone using the scan feature in Notes:
1. Open Notes.
2. Tap the icon of a square with a pencil in it to create a new note.
3. Tap the circle with the + in it.
4. A menu appears above your keyboard. In that menu, again tap
the circle with the + in it.
5. Select Scan Documents.
6. Position your phone’s camera over the document to be scanned. Notes will
automatically focus and capture an image of your document or you can control this
manually by tap3
7. ping the shutter button yourself.
8. After you have scanned a page, Notes will show you a preview and provide the
options to either Keep Scan or Retake.
9. When you have finished scanning all pages, you can review a list of your scanned documents in Notes.
If you need to make corrections, such as cropping the image or rotating the
image, simply tap the image of the page you want to correct, and it will
open that page with editing options displayed.
10. When you are finished with any corrections, tap Done in the upper left
corner to automatically save your adjusted scan.
11. When you’re ready to lock the scan down as a PDF, tap the Upload icon.
You can then choose to create a PDF, copy to another program, and so on.
12. Tap Create PDF. The PDF of your scanned document will open in Notes.
13. Tap Done.
14. Notes will bring up the option to Save File To. Select where you would like
your PDF file saved to, then Tap Add. Your PDF is now saved in the location
you’ve selected and ready for you to attach and send out.
Sending a Scanned Document from iPhone
Once you’ve scanned your document and have it saved in your preferred location, you’re ready to attach it to an email
and send it along like any regular attachment.
1. From your email program, start composing a new email message. From that message, select the option to add
an attachment (often a paperclip icon).
2. Navigate to the location you selected to save your PDF to, such as iCloud, Google Drive, or your device.
If you have difficulty locating your scanned document, check in the Files folder. The Files folder is a feature released in
the iOS 11 update. If you have several documents in your Files folder, you can use the Search option to locate your
desired file faster by file name. Select the document you want to attach and it’s ready to email.
ANDROID Scanning
How to Scan and Send Documents with Android
To scan with Android, you will need Google Drive installed. If you don’t already have Google Drive, it’s a free download
in the Google Play Store.
Here are the steps to scan a document to your Android phone using Google Drive:
1. Open Google Drive.
2. Tap the circle with the + inside it.
3. Tap Scan (label is under the camera icon).
4. Position your phone camera over the document to be scanned and tap the blue shutter button when you are
ready to capture the scan.
5. Drive will automatically open a copy of your scan. You can adjust your scan using the options on the top right of
the screen to crop, rotate, rename, and adjust color. When you’ve finished with your adjustments, tap
the check mark.
6. Drive will present a preview of your adjusted document. If it looks good, tap the check mark again and the PDF
of your scan will automatically be uploaded to Google Drive for you.
Sending a Scanned Document from Android
Sending a scanned document from Android requires only a couple of quick steps.
1. From your email program (assuming Gmail), tap Compose to begin a new email message.
2. Tap the paperclip to add an attachment and choose the option to add an attachment from Google Drive.
3. Locate your scanned PDF and select it to attach it to your email.
4. Finish and send your email per usual to send your scanned document.
Alternately, you can download a copy of your scanned document to your device. If you are attaching a document you
have downloaded to your device, on most Android devices, downloaded PDFs are usually stored in Downloads.
Adobe Scan: PDF Scanner, OCR
If you prefer to use a scanner app to scan and create PDFs of documents, Adobe Scan is available for free for
both Android and iOS.
Note: This app does offer an in-app subscription purchase to access additional features and options. However, the free
version includes all of the features needed to cover the needs of most users. Adobe Scan has all of the basics covered in
the free version and is easy to navigate and use without much of a learning curve. If you haven’t already registered for
an Adobe ID (it’s free), you’ll need to set one up to use this app.
Here’s how to scan documents with Adobe Scan (on iPhone for this example, Android differences noted where
applicable):
1. Open Adobe Scan. You may need to log-in with your Adobe ID when you use the app for the first time.
2. Adobe Scan automatically opens in scanning mode using your phone’s camera. However, if for some reason this
doesn’t happen, tap the camera icon in the lower right corner when you are ready to scan a document.
3. Position camera over document to be scanned. The scanner will focus and capture the page automatically.
4. You can scan multiple pages by simply switching out the page and the program will capture pages automatically
until you tap the thumbnail image in the lower right corner.
5. Your scan will open in a preview screen that allows you to make corrections such as cropping and rotating.
Tap Save PDF in the upper right corner and the PDF of your scan will be automatically uploaded to your Adobe
Document Cloud.
Note: If you prefer to have your PDFs save to your device instead, you can change your preferences in the app’s settings
to save your scans to your device under Photos (iPhone) or Gallery (Android). The app also provides options to share
your scanned files to Google Drive, iCloud, or directly to Gmail.
Sending a Scanned Document from Adobe Scan
The simplest way to send a scanned document from Adobe Scan is to share it to your desired email app. Just make sure
you have granted Adobe Scan permission to use your email app. We’ll use Gmail as an example in our steps below.
1. Open Adobe Scan.
2. Adobe Scan automatically opens in scanning mode. To exit scanning mode, tap the X in the upper left corner.
3. Find the document you want to send. Under the thumbnail image of the document next to the time and date of
the scan, tap the three dots to open options for that document (iPhone) or tap Share (Android).
4. For iPhone, select Share File > Gmail. A new Gmail message will open with your document attached and ready.
Just compose your message, add the email address of the recipient, and send along.
5. For Android, after you tap Share in the step above, the app will give you options to Email to, Share File, or Share
Link. Select Email to > Gmail. A new Gmail message will open with your document attached and ready to be
sent.