Below is a link to a review of "Scan To PDF", an iOS app which allows use of the camera to capture documents as PDFs for storage or email to 3rd parties. In paragraph 5, the author writes of the app instructions, 'To this the app's developers could have added, "Good luck."'
"Good luck," succinctly summarizes my experience with a selection of iOS apps for converting paper documents to PDFs. For me, results have varied from useless to very low quality.
Virtually all of the quality problems are introduced in the conversion of photographs to PDFs. It follows that virtually all of the quality problems can be eliminated by using the photograph itself.
My workflow is:
1. Photograph the document using iOS device.
2. Process the image using "PhotoForge2":
a. Crop the image to eliminate extraneous detail & reduce file size.
b. Resize the image to reduce pixel count & so further reduce file size. Using the iPad 3 camera, a 2 megapixel image usually produces an acceptable image of an A4 original.
Why "PhotoForge2"? It's the only iOS app I'm aware of that allows resizing of an image as in 2.b. above, & it's inexpensive. Recommended.
Other devices:
Nothing in the above is unique to any one device. If yours doesn't have a suitable camera, use an external one. Search out a suitable app. Experiment.
Review of "Scan To PDF" at:
http://www.macworld.com.au/app-guide/scan-to-pdf-56975/
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