Scanning
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Where: Home › quick capsule › Scan; Tools › Scan document; Add › Scan document. To add pages to an existing document: document menu (⋮) › Add scanned pages.
- 1The first time, choose "Allow camera". Photos stay on your device.
- 2In the strip above the shutter, choose what you are scanning: Document, Book, ID, Receipt, Board, Photo, Text or Code. If the strip doesn't fit, swipe it sideways. A second row for the chosen type appears above the strip (Document: Single · Batch and Timestamp; Book: Single · Spread; ID: card types; Receipt: Single · Long). The last type you chose is remembered.
- 3Point the camera at the document. When it is found, it is covered with a blue overlay and its edges are drawn in white. For ID and Book a guide that fits the type (a card frame, a spine line) appears on screen, and the caption tells you what to do.
- 4With "Auto" on (the default), a ring fills in the middle of the document; hold the phone still, and when the ring is full and the image is sharp the photo is taken by itself. To take it yourself, turn off the "Auto" switch at the top and tap the shutter.
- 5When a photo is taken the phone vibrates lightly and the page flies to the page stack at the bottom right. In "Single" mode the finished page opens next; in "Batch" mode you take photos one after another and collect pages. With one page, tapping the stack opens that page's result.
- 6The speaker button at the top turns on the "Voice guide": the instruction in the caption (such as "Place the front of the card in the frame") is spoken in the phone's own voice. It is free and is on by default when TalkBack is on. The "Flashlight" button turns on the light in the dark. "Choose from gallery" lets you process photos you took earlier as a scan.
- 7Go to the page list with the "Done" button (it shows the number of pages taken, e.g. "Done (3 pages)").
Tip: In Document mode, if the camera sees something shaped like a card, a "Looks like a card · switch to ID" bubble appears; tap it to change the type, or ignore it and it disappears after 4 seconds.
Web (quillo.tr): On quillo.tr, Scan offers the same flow with the browser's camera (the rear camera on a phone); the type strip is above the shutter. On a computer without a camera you choose a photo. The document type is only chosen in the camera; there's no separate type list on the first screen (the same goes for Scan and explain).
