
How to Scan Documents to PDF With Your Phone
Free ways to turn paper into a PDF with the phone you already have, how to get clean, upright pages, and how to keep the file small enough to send.
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Free ways to turn paper into a PDF with the phone you already have, how to get clean, upright pages, and how to keep the file small enough to send.

Why a page turns back after you rotate it in a viewer, how to save the rotation in the file itself, and how to fix one sideways page without touching the rest.

Put scanned or merged pages back in order with previews, arrow buttons or a typed position, and keep links and bookmarks working after the pages move.

A scan is a picture of text, so it has to be recognised before you can copy it. A two-step method that keeps the file on your device, and its limits.

Forms that cap uploads at 100, 200 or 500 KB: the order of steps that usually gets a scanned PDF under the limit, and what to do when it still won't fit.

Photos, scans and screenshots in one PDF, in the right order: how to pick the page size, keep phone photos upright and JPG quality intact, and what the limits are.