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Scanning

Getting paper into a file: resolution and colour choices, duplex batches that come back out of order, blank backs, and the difference between a scan you can read and one a machine can also read.

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Fixing Page Order from Duplex Scanning

You scan a double-sided document on a single-sided feeder, following the sensible-looking instructions: run the stack through, flip it, run it through again…

GuidesScanning

Jul 30, 2026·7 min read

How to Scan to PDF on a Mac

macOS has better built-in scanning than most people realise, spread across three places that each do the job slightly differently: Preview, the Printers &…

GuidesScanning

Jul 29, 2026·7 min read

How to Scan to PDF on Windows

Windows ships with two scanning applications, neither of which is obviously the right one, and most scanners add a third from the manufacturer. Which you use…

GuidesScanning

Jul 29, 2026·7 min read

Scanning Resolution and DPI for Documents

Resolution is the one scanning setting that cannot be fixed afterwards. Compression can be redone, colour can be adjusted, crooked pages can be straightened —…

GuidesScanning

Jul 29, 2026·7 min read

How to Compress a Scanned PDF

Scanned PDFs are the heavyweights of the document world. A handful of scanned pages can balloon to tens of megabytes, because each page is stored as a…

GuidesScanningCompression

Jun 2, 2026·3 min read

How to Edit a Scanned PDF: From "Picture of Text" to Actually Editable

A scanned PDF is just an image of a document. Each page is a picture; the words you see are pixels, not text. You cannot select, copy, search, or edit them in…

GuidesScanning

May 4, 2026·9 min read

Scanning Documents With Your Phone

The desktop scanner is mostly gone. Phones now produce scans that rival dedicated scanners for everyday documents: receipts, contracts, ID cards, kids'…

MobileMobileScanning

Apr 21, 2026·7 min read