While we are all working at home, here is a little tip for you Good Cloud users out there. It contains scanning documents with your mobile phone directly in your Good Cloud storage. There is no obvious documentation, so I decided to do a blog post about this functionality as lots of users don’t know the functionality exists.
As you probably know we use Nextcloud as our hosting software, which includes the mobile client. The mobile app includes a nice scan function for documents that is accessible anytime, anywhere and incredibly easy to use. I’m using Apple, so I’m using the Nextcloud iOS mobile client to take the screenshot.
Apple!?
What do you say?
Yes, I’m still waiting for my Privacy-friendly phone to be delivered, but that’s a different story.
Open the Nextcloud app, click on the + and select “scan document”:
You can see it’s at an odd angle, which is very annoying when scanning a document. If you have ever taken pictures from a document, you will have experienced this. But wait… It will magically rotate the document based on the corners of the earlier taken pic! You can even edit it or rotate the document!
After that, you have to select the pics you have taken and slide it down. This is a little non-intuitive, but it’s meant for you to select multiple pictures and create one scanned document. Here you have some colour/grayscale/black&white options too. After that, you can select the location (select save path) and save it to your Good Cloud storage.
I’m using it mainly for my family administration, so I scan every document related to insurance, car papers or invoices. I notice I won’t use the hard paper version at all anymore, laying on a stack labelled “to do”. Every time I need a document, I go to my Good Cloud storage to select the document from there (and it’s always with me).
OCR is now integrated!
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