It hasn’t at all times been that easy to create a PDF utilizing your telephone. A number of years in the past, once 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 residence. Relatively than drag a scanner round, I discovered a useful Android app referred to as Tiny Scanner that permit me flip paper paperwork into easy-to-store PDFs utilizing my telephone’s digicam.
Later, Google launched the beta of its personal scanning app referred to as Stack, so I started utilizing that to create a lot of my PDFs. It presents 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 included not less than a few of Slack’s options into Android’s Drive app, however the useful categorization and different routinely added particulars are actually gone, making it simply that rather more troublesome for me to search out that one doc I would like 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 little thing you’d need to do with a PDF file — for instance, you would possibly need 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.
