Samsung Just Changed Scanning FOREVER in One UI 8.5 | 3 Ways to Scan Document on Samsung Galaxy 😳, by The Simple Dad on YouTube. 9 min 10 s.
- Video length
- 9 min 10 s
- Time to do it
- 5 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- 9
What you need
Steps
Lay the page flat on a dark surface and open the Camera app on your Galaxy phone. Fill most of the frame with the document so the edges are visible.
Hold the phone still and wait for the scanner prompt to appear. Tap it, or press the shutter button if your model scans straight from the normal photo mode.
Check the preview. On One UI 8.5 the phone straightens the page, trims the background and evens out shadows on its own.
Look over the cleaned result for folded corners, fingers in frame or blurry text, and retake the shot if anything looks wrong. Save the scan to Gallery as an image or PDF.
For a PDF in the cloud, open Google Drive, tap the plus button and choose Scan. Point the camera at the page and let it capture automatically.
Tap the plus icon to add more pages, then crop each one so only the paper shows. Drag the corner handles if the automatic crop misses an edge.
Tap the checkmark, type a file name, pick the Drive folder and save. The result is a multi page PDF you can share straight from Drive.
For a rough scan, open the image in Galaxy Enhance-X and run the document cleanup option. It sharpens text and fixes distortion caused by shooting at an angle.
Save the improved copy back to Gallery or upload it to Drive. Compare it with the original and keep whichever reads better.
Tips and common mistakes
Place the page on a dark, flat surface in even light to cut shadows and wavy screen patterns.
Hold the phone parallel to the paper rather than tilting it, and avoid digital zoom.
Add every page before you save in Drive so you end up with one PDF instead of separate files.
Wipe the lens first, since smudges make small text look soft.
Questions
Where are my scanned documents saved?
Camera scans go to the Gallery on your phone. Scans made in Google Drive are saved as PDFs in the Drive folder you pick.
Does the new camera scanner work on every Samsung phone?
The built in document scanner needs One UI 8.5, which ships on recent Galaxy models. Google Drive scanning and Galaxy Enhance-X work on older Samsung phones too.
Can I scan several pages into one file?
Yes. In Google Drive, tap the plus button between pages and keep scanning, then save once at the end to get a single PDF.
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