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Welcome to teachmeios.com where you'll find tips, tricks, apps and tutorials for your
iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Today I'll be reviewing an app called Jetscanner, which
is a great way to create PDF's from documents you have. And if you've ever wanted to get
rid of a lot of the paper that you use at work, maybe you have a lot of meeting notes
that are kind of crowding your desk and your file cabinet, Jetscanner is a great way to
handle these and to store those documents in the cloud rather than on your desk. So
it's available for free on the app store, just search for Jetscanner. And download it,
give it a try. I think you'll really enjoy it. I use it all the time at work, so. Let's
go ahead and dive into the review here. So the first page you're brought to is this screen.
It encourages you to start your PDF by taking a picture. We'll do that in just a minute.
And I can demonstrate how that works, but first I'd like to kinda open up the settings
panel here because there's a few things you should be aware of. The first is Image Settings,
you can configure the image resolution. I have mine set on low, which still takes, it's
still pretty good image resolution. The reason I have it set on low is that I don't want
my files to take up a whole lot of space since I'll be storing them in the cloud. The other
thing that's on this settings panel is you can see the different accounts that you can
configure here. There's Dropbox, Evernote, Skydrive. Those are the tools that will enable
you to store these, your PDF files in the cloud, so I'll demonstrate how that works
in just a minute. Alright, so, let's go ahead and give one of these, give a PDF a try here.
I'm going to tap on the camera. And here's just some old meeting notes, I guess an old
syllabus that I have from one of my college courses. I'll go ahead and kinda center it
here in the screen, and then I can tap on the camera shutter. And then it will bring
you to this page with this useful cropping tool, and I'm gonna go ahead and just make
sure all these, the corners of this photo are set correctly in the corners of the document.
And then I'll tap the check mark. And that processes the image, and you can see, it really
flattened out the whole thing and kind of corrected the weird angles that I'd taken
the picture at. It does a really good job of that to make it, make the document look
correct. So, tap on that, and you can see we've got our first page of our PDF there.
Then, I'll go ahead and do a second page here as well so you can see that. Tap on the camera
icon again, and here's the second page of those notes. Take a photo. And you can see
this one didn't do as good a job on autocorrecting the cropping function, so I'm gonna go ahead
and manually do that with each of these four corners here. There we go. Tap the check mark.
Alright, and pretty good. And so, check mark again and there's the two pages of our PDF,
and we'll just keep it at two for this, for this tutorial. And then, you can see in the
top right there's that Adobe icon. I'm going to tap on that to finalize the PDF. And we'll
call it class notes. And then tap create. And it'll finalize the PDF and save it on
your device. So there we go, now we're back to the main screen here with our list of different
files. I've only got one stored on here, just the one we've created. And, you can search
through them using that search bar if you've got a bunch of notes. But I don't tend to
store my PDF's on my device. I tend to delete them after I'm done because what I'm going
to do now is upload it to my Dropbox account. If you tap on the notes, it brings up this
panel with these different options. You can open your PDF to view it right here in Jetscanner.
You can open it in a different app. Or you can choose upload to, which is what I'm going
to do. There's also options to email or print if you've got an AirPrint enabled printer.
But let's go ahead and upload it to my Dropbox, because that's the cloud service I have configured
here. Tap upload and it uploads it to my Dropbox. Completed. And then what I do is I just go
back to this screen and I just delete the file because I don't need it stored locally
anymore since it's in the cloud. There we go. And if I go over to my Dropbox app here
on my phone. It stores it in Apps, and then Jetscanner, and then there it is. Class Notes.
You can open it up. And this is stored all in the cloud, not on my device at all. So
I can access this on my Mac, on my iPad, on my iPhone. Wherever I have the, wherever I
have access to my Dropbox, so. This has been a review of Jetscanner. A really useful tool
for creating PDFs and really cutting down on clutter in the office. It's available for
free on the app store. Go ahead and download it, give it a try, and see if it can help
you get organized as well. You are on teachmeios.com.