button to switch to grid view. CamScanner
Tutorial
CamScanner is a must-have application for your Android phone. With CamScanner, your mobile phone is actually a portable scanner, with which all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions can be archived anywhere and anytime. Our Smart Image cropping and Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned images perfectly clear and recognizable.
You can switch between two viewing modes for the existing documents, list view or grid view. When first installed, the default viewing mode is list view.
Press menu key and select "View" to change viewing mode.
1. Tap button to switch to grid view.
2. Tap 
button to switch to list view.
There are two ways to get image in CamScanner. In the Main Page:
1. Tap 
button to take a picture.
Click 
to modify camera's capturing parameters.
Click 
to select capturing image size.
Click 
to select capturing image orientation.
Click 
to show or hide horizontal indicator.
Click 
or 
to open or close shutter sound.
Click 
to select flash mode.
Click 
to show or hide grid lines.
Click 
to take a picture. Click 
to do batch shooting and pictures will be processed in the background.
2. Tap 
button to select an existing image.
Click "Share" and select [CamScanner] (Batch) in Gallery to enter Multi-Selection Mode. After selecting images, click "Next" to import these images to [CamScanner] and they will be processed in the background. Check them in [Document list].
With the image taken or selected, you will enter the image edit view, where you can create a new document following the application instructions.
When an image is selected or taken, the image edit view will be displayed. To document an image, take the following steps:
1. Crop and Enhance:
The image would be cropped by default. With the border automatically detected by CamScanner, you can drag the four vertexes to specify the border for cropping. Select an image enhance mode on the top of the screen.
If you want the whole image to be documented, tap the 
button. Otherwise, tap the
You can rotate the image by tapping 
to turn left or 
to turn right.
Tap the button 
to show or dismiss the color adjustment tool. Tap the icon 
to adjust brightness, tap the icon 
to adjust contrast and tap the icon 
to adjust detail.
Press the button 
, the image will be automatically trimmed (if necessary) and enhanced.
2. Confirm Edit
The result can be previewed in this step.
Tap if you are content with the final result, and proceed to the View Document Page.
If not, press 
to return to the previous steps.
To make change to a single document, long press the document item you want to deal with (either in list view or in grid view), you can edit the document as the popup menu indicates.
1. Press "Rename" to rename the document.
2. Press "Delete" to delete the document.
3. By tapping "Upload/Print/Fax", you are about to upload the PDF file with popular web storage services (e.g. Google Docs, Dropbox), or to print the document by Google CloudPrint Service, or to fax the PDF file .
4. By tapping "Share", you can send the document by email or other available applications.
5. Click "Set Tag", to set one or more tags for current document.
6. Click "Add shortcuts to Home Screen", to add a shortcuts to the Home Screen for current document.
To manage multiple files, tap the 
button and enter the edit mode.
Select the documents you intent to change.
1. Tap 
to delete the selected documents.
2. Tap 
to merge the selected documents.
3. Tap 
to share or upload the selected documents.
4. Tap 
or 
to lock or unlock the documents.
5. Tap 
to tag selected documents.
button or the search key to search documents.
To search the documents, input the name or note of the document in the search box, the searched results will be shown instantly.
The icon 
to the left of the textbox is the tag selector, when tapped, all tags will popup as a list, which allows you to search documents with a particular tag.
Tap the button All to search all documents.
To leave search mode, simply press the 
button at the right of the textbox.
1. Open a document from the document manager.
2. Add a new page to a document.
The title and pages of the current document is visually presented in this view. For batch processing, the unprocessed images will be marked. 
shows processing. 
shows pending. In this view, you can:
1. Tap 
or 
to add a new page.
2. Tap 
to view the generated PDF file if there is any application available.
3. Tap to send or upload current document.
4. Tap 
to enter the Edit Document view.
1. Tap 
and 
to browse other pages of the current document.
2. Tap to turn left or to turn right the image.
3. Tap to send or upload current image.
4. Tap 
to process or rotate current image.
5. Tap 
or 
to add notes for current image or check notes for current image.
Press return key to go back to the View Document page.
1. Rename: You can rename the document by pressing the title text box, and enter the new name.
2. Delete page: Tap the 
button of any page to delete this page.
3. Change position: Press the 
button and drag to move the position of the page.
After finishing editing, tap 
to save modifications.
To manage a particular page in the current document, long press the intended page.
On the pop-up menu, you can view, upload, share, delete, copy, move, or re-edit the selected pages.
1. "PDF page orientation" allows you to specify an intended page orientation for the PDF file of the current document.
2. "PDF page size" allows you to specify an intended page size for the PDF file of the current document.
3. "PDF page margin" allows you to specify whether to add white margin on PDF page or not.
4. "Set PDF password" allows you to set up or clear a password protection for the PDF file of the current document.
5. "Tag" allows you to set tag for the current document.
Tap "Settings" to change CamScanner settings.
Select "Auto crop image", to scan and crop images automatically.
Click "Enhance mode", to select a default enhance mode for the images.
Click "No enhance", to keep the original images.
Click "Low enhance mode", to enhance the images.
Click "High enhance mode", to enhance and sharpen the images.
Click "Gray mode", to gray the images.
Click "B&W Document", to make the images black and white.
Click "Use system camera", to take picture with system camera which does not support batch scanning mode.
Click "Save image to Gallery", to save document to album after scan processing.
Select "Upload Accounts" to manage different upload accounts. Currently five web storage services are supported, i.e. Google Docs, Box.net , Dropbox , Evernote and SkyDrive.
Click "Turn password on" or "Turn password off", to set password to protect document or clear password on document.
Click "Backup", to back up the current documents from [CamScanner] to SD Card.
Click "Restore", to restore the data from SD Card to [CamScanner].
Click "Create PDF", to recreate PDF for all documents.
Click "Update", to check the latest version of [CamScanner].
Click "About", to check the version of [CamScanner].
When the app is installed:
When pressing menu key in the main page:
When creating or editing a tag, enter the title in the textbox.
Please note that you should always specify a title for your tag.
Tap "Sort" to sort the documents. There are 2 kinds of sort types, "sort by modify time" and "sort by create time" ."Latest First" or "Oldest First" is available in each sort type.
Tap "Task status", you can view the status of tasks running in the background such as upload, fax and print.
The "Help" option leads you to this tutorial.
If you are using the free version, tap 
to get the full version of CamScanner.