How to Scan a Document to your Phone

In this step-by-step tutorial learn how to scan documents using your iPhone or Android phone and get the absolute best quality scan. In this video, I use the free Microsoft Office app made to scan the documents. Save as a Word document, PDF, or an image.
As full-disclosure, I work at Microsoft as a full-time employee.

[@kristalwioncek7570]

My daughter is so proud of me as I figured out how to scan a document she needed so I could send it to her. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THESE VERY SIMPLE TUTORIALS.!! I'm middle aged and did not grow up with computers, living on a farm in rural America.

[@ricdonato4328]

Congratulation on creating the scan! Kristal, keep up the good work, continue storming the technology castle.
Middle aged, truly age has nothing to do with it. As I tell my friends, daily grammar school children do this, we as mature adults can as well; the hold back is ones attitude for learning. Oh, I am late 70s and made myself into quite a techno person.

[@tsega2841]

Yes!!!!! I scanned my certificate (so excited). I love how short and sweet your videos are. This one really saved me from going out for a scan in this cold weather. God bless you!

[@Senko1800]

For real God bless this man he saved me

[@martincobb6937]

Scanned my first document and QR code this evening. Thanks to guys like you I am becoming quite smart using my devices.

[@akinoz]

Thank you Kevin for this tutorial. I didn’t aware of Microsoft Office app has scanning function. I was using normal Lens app and it was buggy. Now it is fine.

[@azaleneamacker3416]

Thank Youuuuuu Kevin

[@Wilberforce23]

Thank you for sharing. You've just made someone happy in Mauritius.

[@joevular966]

Wow, This was excellent, Kevin. Thanks so much!

[@mummabaz9688]

Love these, Thank you so much I was also having issues playing music when coaching on zoom...subscribed and learnt the scan function tonight, brilliant!

[@rozlin313]

Thanks Kev...so glad I found this. I was on my way to UPS to fax something (and even considering a pc scanner). Microsoft app and my phone are awesome. Sooo happy.

[@mitaalqahtani]

Loved this. Came across your video totally by random. It just popped up! This has been an issue I have needed to solve for some time now. I am working with my clients on the go and needed an android easy fix. Perfect timing! Very nice delivery on this content. Thank you for the solution today!

[@mikemalone9896]

I love these great tutorials! Wish I had found these years ago! This guy does a very good job.

[@sandrabigvand3771]

I agree!

[@sunny14u57]

Kevin you are "Awesome"! I'm not tech savvy at all. You made it so easy to understand and follow along. I hope Microsoft is watching. What a good representative for the company. Will check out your other videos. So long Staples!

[@raphjo123]

Whatever you say is to the point and not a single word is wasted. Not to mention that the knowledge shared was unknown to me before and very useful. Keep going Kevin and thank you.

[@RobertBeriault753]

I was doubtful that I'd learn anything useful from this, but I'm glad I decided to give it a chance. Thanks for the excellent explanation.

[@samosa5925]

Thank you so much! I am so glad I found your channel today and I have been watching and watching. Thank you for not having some annoying music like so many YTuber.

[@myrongoodwin2125]

Thank you Kevin! I have watched several of your videos, and each one is rich in content with easy to follow instructions. Keep up the good work.

[@franksamuel590]

Brilliant I need to know how to do PDFs,scan and zoom for this new world we are living in

[@maacrayan3118]

Interesting, thank you so much

[@paulwood7226]

Wow!Just what I needed! Great job! very articulate. Solved my problem. Thank you!

[@ofeliagalicia7082]

Whenever I need something to know about PPT, Word, Excel and Ms Teams, I always visit your site. Thank you for the vivid explanations. More power

[@frylicaicarganivid5391]

The things that I like you most is within an hour I learned a lot of your tutorial.Thanks.

[@naanbread1970]

Thank you for this! FANTASTIC as there are so many of us WFH. This is super helpful.

[@bryandiaz1044]

This was so unbelievable efficient and easy to use. Thank you for advertising this service. Love from New York

[@sammyytube5999]

Wow, this is a much cleaner scan document than the usual phone camera pics with more function for save, sharing and editing. THANX!!

[@nesspatinio7807]

Such a smarting tutorial done simply and effectively, thank you Kevin!

[@musamarcellus6930]

instablaster

[@keiaguila]

Thank you! You're a oife saver for those people with no scanning machines.

[@staceygannon1697]

Thank you Kevin, once again I actually learned something.

[@abghomes]

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[@gisselmartinez5599]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH YOU HAVE HELPED ME OUT WITH THESE VIDEOS.

[@sharonajones878]

Thank you so much, Kevin. So helpful. Recently purchased new iPhone with great camera making this option ideal for scanning. No more trips to UPS gotta love that❣️

[@joeg5500]

Thanks Kevin! Really great, informative tutorials.

[@lizeducate]

Kevin you are plain clear, understandable and I just subscribed to your video as they will really help this grandma of two. Thanks!

[@gr82baliveagain]

I'm a horrible typist. I use this with the OCR feature to import longer citations or quotes. Very helpful!

[@irinachukhray]

Wow!!! Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!!! Sending this to my mom!

[@silkkay6214]

Amazing.! This is exactly what I've been looking for a long time

[@arlenekufchock1394]

I really like Office Lens phone scanner compared to other phone scanners, including your naming convention year first. I wish it would add 'Scan' text to beginning of name, and/or allow us to change the text added to beginning of name before year/date. Also in addition to my comment below, I wish the business card could be automatically imported to a growing excel spreadsheet with generic columns of business name, employee name, address, website, phone number. Thank you, it works very well.

[@seva2258ny]

WOW, WOW !Absolutely great ! Thank you so very much ! It was easy, simple and effective !

[@arlenekufchock1394]

Thanks for your straightforward tutorial. Some phone scanning apps state theirs is better for business cards because theirs auto-names the electronic file and/or adds to your contacts. I have a lot of business cards I don't wish to add to my contacts, but instead would love to add it to an excel spreadsheet. A generic spreadsheet by microsoft would be fine, or else customizable to my own contact spreadsheet I've had for years. In fact, I probably wouldn't want it in my own spreadsheet because that has trusted personal contacts I know well, as opposed to a business card contact I may never call. So it would be awesome if it could simply scan into a pre-made Office excel spreadsheet of scanned business cards of untrusted contacts. Thanks!

[@chhemmithona2333]

Thanks so much!!
That's what i'm looking for🤗

[@lwasastephen1519]

Hello, thanks for the tutorial on this app that I can use to scan docs.

[@autreshikha]

Your videos are so helpful and amazing. This is slowly becoming my favorite channel.

[@julettcoley-mitchell4962]

Thanks Kevin, you're a great teacher. It's easy to understand and follow your instructions.

[@rashadrajpoot8722]

Scanr neme please

[@muratgumussoy5918]

So helpful, thank you very much!! All sorted so easily! I am beginning to enjoy SW thanks to your voideos!!

[@NW-jp6vl]

Thanks so much for this, I’m a recent subscriber and your tutorials are so helpful for a boomer trying desperately to transition to digital organization of my personal life! 😁😅

[@jrgilead]

it makes no sense why he doesn't have 10 million subscribers. You're the man thanks again!

[@oyetequilla5728]

Thank you, man I need this so badly.

[@judybajoon8974]

Thank you for this video. I can now scan and keep my Resume and other documents with me all the time, as I am job-hunting.

[@cliffwhite2812]

Thank you for a perfect solution!

[@betkay6684]

Extremely valuable ... Well done for clear and precise info !!

[@ernestosabatercalvet]

Thanks again Kevin for the great tutorial, it really helped me processed my docs.

[@jaydenhagumanobuga1814]

Wow I really love this tutorial, it help me scan and file my document using tablet phone.

[@ucbre]

Kevin, your videos are very helpful. Thank you!

[@wingame52]

some of Kevin's 'old video' is news and new to me! was using my 5-year old printer to scan when all the time there's a portable scanner in my iPhone. Thanks again Kev

[@randyroll99]

Loved this and other videos. Learning so much from your tutorials

[@iamme8404]

I thank you so much for this. More power!

[@ogienofuente3269]

Thank you for this tutorial, it will help me a lot.

[@knunne1]

Great content, I followed along and added something valuable to my iPhone, Thanks

[@richardwalsh1536]

Thank you. You made it quite simple and easy to do.

[@kaylacush3671]

Thanks so much for the tips because it was really helpful. You did an awesome job explaining yourself and the app that you were using. I am definitely using the app and it gives me no problems.

[@clcpaint411]

Awesome Video! super helpful and straight to the point. crushed it!

[@tinarabino6741]

glad i found you but still need to watch more videos of you. thank you

[@eugeneso-ong9427]

Thank you Kevin for sharing.. once again I've learned something

[@mikemavovana3169]

Thank you so much. What a great lesson. Im growing everyday

[@911___________DIVOC]

Just what I needed. Excellent content.

[@stayfocus5822]

Wow Kevin thanks you really explained that to the T.. hopefully this saves me from stopping at a truck stop.

[@teach_eve1264]

Very great help esp. for my daughter’s work submission.

[@tatapanawasebi]

I saw this and it comes right on time,. thanks Kevin! :)

[@akeemaweda1716]

Never knew this existed on the office app. Thanks Kevin

[@StepDoku]

Been using it since it was first launched and I have it both on my Google pixel 3 and iPhone 12 pro max. Great app...

[@ronnmatanguihan7027]

Thank you so much!so much help. Love this app😍

[@MrHutchMO]

Thank you for sharing!! You have helped me so much!! Great instructional videos!!

[@loveanimals-0197]

how to scan driver's license on phone to later print at the same size as original? If you do the method in this video, it blows up the image to the whole page.

[@AlphardV55WR35]

Thanks for saving me time ! You're the best !

[@renevicente1756]

man, youre a life saver!!! thank you so much

[@secertacademictube8925]

Excellent video! And the way you explain it is very easy to understand. Thank you so very very much!

[@pareetjshah]

Thank you, great video!

[@mikewashington4188]

Once again Kevin, you are awesome. Thanks for your excellent video’s

[@emjay20]

Very informative. Learning a lot of new things about MS Office. Thanks.

[@jeanpecato]

Thank you! This is really helpful.👍

[@simplerutznaiko]

WOW..so grateful to have found this video😍subscribed. Very useful! Thanks!

[@northcanuck7387]

Thank you Kevin, great content and so useful. You saved me a trip to officemax

[@carlenejohnson750]

Thank you Kevin for your easy explanation of scanning a document.

[@wardmab]

thank you for this! very helpful!

[@marieg2g]

Thanks Kevin for sharing. I did not know that I can do this on my phone.

[@island_girl9618]

You're a life saver thank you❤

[@syedhasan7761]

Really its an amazing tutorial. Learned fantastic useful topic and very nicely, clearly explained. God bless you. Thanks a lot.

[@gupttura2766]

Thanks for sharing----I have been looking for product like this for a while,

[@jspringe7]

Love your videos, I've learned so much from them and you're an excellent presenter. Thanks.

[@paulschumacher6296]

Many thanks for the lesson - learnt a lot.

[@markkoons7488]

You put together a video that's nice in every respect. Thank you. I've subscribed.

[@lingo1708]

Thanks, Kevin for this great tutorial!

[@Truly1Tom]

Thanks very much! I went to the Playstore and downloaded the app and upgraded to premium and now can scan documents with the same options!

[@tonicarberry5242]

Thank you. I haven't done it yet but have faith that all will be perfect thanks to your tutorial.
Thanks for sharing, it's appreciated.

[@priyer74]

A BIG BIG THANK YOU FOR THIS TUTORIAL. IT HAS REALLY HELPED ME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH...

[@Sunbreaker7]

Thanks for sharing this video. I had some documents that I needed to scan but I don't have a scanner anywhere, never knew smartphone can do such clean scans of paperwork

[@fandydawenan]

Thank you for the useful tutorial, sir 🙏😀👍🏽👍🏽

[@Neddie2k]

Saved me from using one of those untrusted apps, can't thank you enough.

[@melodichomage1832]

You’re awesome!!! Thank you so much, and God bless!!!

[@Englisheduclaz]

Watching Kevin did not disappoint me... Thanks

[@vencilagonsalves6325]

Thank u. That was informative.

[@ivancedrickbusano8202]

Thank you very much for this video, it helps me a lot. Thank you! Thank you! More Power! 🙏

[@g.r.1491]

Thank you for great tips! 👌👍🤩

[@mishong3]

Thanks Kevin, you are really a life saver. I have learnt alot from you.

[@GameFreakTD]

Magnificent, Kevin. Appreciate it.

[@souniakal7502]

Thank you so much you really helped a lot of people especially me!!!