How to scan a document with a webcam or phone camera
Light, angle, background, and focus: the four things that decide whether a camera scan is readable, with fixes for each.
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Guides
Short, practical reading from building Cam Scanner and the document tools. No fluff, no sign-up.
PDF, Word, or Excel: which format should your scan become?
A practical way to choose: keep the look (PDF), edit the words (Word), or work with the numbers (Excel).
Read · 5 min →OCR basics: how a photo of text becomes text you can edit
What optical character recognition does, why it misreads some pages, and how to check the result quickly.
Read · 7 min →How to sign a PDF safely
What a drawn signature on a PDF does and does not prove, and a checklist before you send a signed file.
Read · 6 min →Organising scanned documents for a small team
File names, folders, versions, and who may edit: a simple system for receipts, contracts, and letters shared by a team.
Read · 6 min →Case study: how the Max Cam Scanner app icon was made with Vector Studio
From a few overlapping shapes to a five-region SVG and launcher icons, using the same Vector Studio that runs on this site.
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