It hasn’t at all times been that straightforward to create a PDF utilizing your cellphone. A number of years in the past, after I began dealing with my mom’s payments, I noticed I wanted a fast option to scan her paperwork whereas I used to be at her house. Fairly than drag a scanner round, I discovered a useful Android app referred to as Tiny Scanner that allow me flip paper paperwork into easy-to-store PDFs utilizing my cellphone’s digicam.
Later, Google launched the beta of its own scanning app called Stack, so I started utilizing that to create a lot of my PDFs. It provides fast scans and categorization and was just a bit extra enjoyable to make use of.
Nevertheless, as is Google’s wont, that firm is now sunsetting Stack and giving some (though not all) of the app’s skills to create, edit, and retailer PDFs to Google Drive, the storage service app that comes put in on Android telephones. (I suppose I needs to be grateful that Google has integrated no less than a few of Slack’s options into Android’s Drive app, however the useful categorization and different mechanically added particulars at the moment are gone, making it simply that rather more tough for me to search out that one doc I want proper now.)
So now, if you wish to create a fast PDF utilizing Drive, right here’s the way it works:
You can too edit an current PDF:
In fact, this isn’t every part you’d wish to do with a PDF file — for instance, you would possibly wish to take away a web page, add textual content, or password-protect a doc. In that case, sadly, you’ll most likely have to make use of Adobe Acrobat or another for-pay app.