Need to Sign or Scan Papers? Here's How To Use Your iPhone's Hidden Document Scanner

These days, it's pretty easy to digitally sign important documents, but sometimes you just need to sign a physical piece of paper and scan it to send over email. When you just have to put your signature on a physical document and digitally upload it and you don't have a standalone scanner handy, the easiest method to do it is right in your pocket -- using your iPhone to turn images into PDFs. Yes, your iPhone doubles as a document scanner. It may not produce images as sharp as a dedicated scanner would, but it does a respectable job, even when the phone is positioned at odd angles trying to capture text. iPhones have had this hidden feature since iOS 11 launched in 2017, but as the cameras built into Apple phones have improved, so has their ability to take decent scans of documents and turn them into PDFs you can email. You won't need to download additional software or pay for a third-party app -- Apple's Notes app that comes preinstalled on iPhones does the trick. The good news is t ... Read full article.