Apple hides this feature in plain sight, letting you have a scanner for your Mac without a USB cable or other software.
If you’re like me, you are constantly trying to bridge the gap between paper and digital documents. While I’ve managed to decrease the amount of paper that comes in, it’s not zero, and often government agencies, medical offices, and my children’s schools are insistent on having forms that must be filled out “by hand.”
Your iPhone is often the best camera you have with you, and it’s also the best scanner for your Mac. You can perform powerful tricks in transforming paper to bits with your iPhone by itself, using software like Adobe Scan, JotNot Pro, PDFPen, or Evernote—or even Apple’s Notes app.
But you can save a step and use a bigger screen for editing and other tasks by selecting an option you might not have known existed. It’s easiest to demonstrate in the built-in Preview app. Launch Preview and choose File > Import from iPhone > Take Photo or Scan Documents. The two options differ significantly:
- Take Photo lets you capture a single image. After you tap the shutter button, you have the options Retake and Use Photo. If you select the latter, the photo is transferred to your Mac and opened in Preview.
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