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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@mikemalone9896]

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

[@sandrabigvand3771]

I agree!

[@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.

[@frylicaicarganivid5391]

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

[@joevular966]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@keiaguila]

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

[@naanbread1970]

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

[@paulwood7226]

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

[@bryandiaz1044]

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

[@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

[@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

[@gisselmartinez5599]

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

[@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!

[@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❣️

[@sammyytube5999]

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

[@irinachukhray]

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

[@joeg5500]

Thanks Kevin! Really great, informative tutorials.

[@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! 😁😅

[@autreshikha]

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

[@lizeducate]

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

[@staceygannon1697]

Thank you Kevin, once again I actually learned something.

[@abghomes]

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[@muratgumussoy5918]

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

[@gr82baliveagain]

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

[@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.

[@nesspatinio7807]

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

[@musamarcellus6930]

instablaster

[@tinarabino6741]

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

[@seva2258ny]

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

[@silkkay6214]

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

[@ernestosabatercalvet]

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

[@julettcoley-mitchell4962]

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

[@rashadrajpoot8722]

Scanr neme please

[@richardwalsh1536]

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

[@knunne1]

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

[@ucbre]

Kevin, your videos are very helpful. Thank you!

[@randyroll99]

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

[@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.

[@jaydenhagumanobuga1814]

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

[@stayfocus5822]

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

[@akeemaweda1716]

Never knew this existed on the office app. Thanks Kevin

[@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.

[@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

[@lwasastephen1519]

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

[@eugeneso-ong9427]

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

[@911___________DIVOC]

Just what I needed. Excellent content.

[@fmj_556]

Thanks! Great vid, simple and to the point. BTW could you make a video for people who are trying to go from a old paper work environment to a digital one? You know for old people?

[@chhemmithona2333]

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

[@jrgilead]

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

[@betkay6684]

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

[@MrHutchMO]

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

[@ogienofuente3269]

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

[@carlenejohnson750]

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

[@simplerutznaiko]

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

[@syedhasan7761]

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

[@mikemavovana3169]

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

[@oyetequilla5728]

Thank you, man I need this so badly.

[@cliffwhite2812]

Thank you for a perfect solution!

[@kmm111313]

Well Done! I asked this on another of your excellent tutorials, Kevin; if I want to email attached a compressed but still color pdf, what do you recommend to get under file attachment limits? A secondary compression like "pdf smaller" worked, but I wonder if MS has something integrated since Office "filter" choices don't compress enough on a multi-page HW submit from/to students... Thx.

[@marieg2g]

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

[@teach_eve1264]

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

[@clcpaint411]

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

[@mikewashington4188]

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

[@lorettapang]

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

[@markkoons7488]

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

[@emjay20]

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

[@paulschumacher6296]

Many thanks for the lesson - learnt a lot.

[@secertacademictube8925]

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

[@AlphardV55WR35]

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

[@Rdebeauvoir1]

Any friend of Bill Gate is also a friend of mine! Thanks for the video Kevin.

[@priyer74]

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

[@northcanuck7387]

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

[@iamme8404]

I thank you so much for this. More power!

[@mishong3]

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

[@winnieator2470]

I'm not a techie. So, your videos helped me so much. Thank you for sharing!

[@rolfbackstrom6029]

Brilliant! I have tried doing this using the camera but as you pointed out the quality is not that good. This solves the issue. Thank you very much!

[@jeanpecato]

Thank you! This is really helpful.👍

[@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

[@lingo1708]

Thanks, Kevin for this great tutorial!

[@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.

[@jspringe7]

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

[@gupttura2766]

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

[@lukefannon8902]

Thanks a lot Kevin. Great tutorial.

[@fandydawenan]

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

[@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...

[@JaneyJ99]

Kevin learning a lot from your tutorial , Thank you

[@wardmab]

thank you for this! very helpful!

[@pareetjshah]

Thank you, great video!

[@ronnmatanguihan7027]

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

[@souniakal7502]

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

[@ivancedrickbusano8202]

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

[@Neddie2k]

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

[@renevicente1756]

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