Friday, May 15, 2020

OneDrive multi-page scanning now free for everyone

In today's difficult times of Covid, many are working from home. And in these times, it is not easy for everyone to have access to office equipment like printers and scanners. Scanning documents from home, or outside the office, should be easy. OneDrive has long offered a free scanning feature from the OneDrive mobile app which lets you scan and digitize single documents, receipts etc.

Up until now, scanning multiple pages and saving them as single document was a premium feature that required a Microsoft 365 subscription. From today, Microsoft is making multi-page scanning available for everyone for free using a OneDrive personal account.

With the OneDrive mobile app you can scan physical documents, business cards and whiteboards simply by opening the app and touching the camera icon. Once scanned, OneDrive digitizes the image into a PDF file, which you can then save, share or mark-up with text, pictures, or freehand drawing and writing. Once you scan items into OneDrive, you’ll be able to access them anywhere from any device.

Multi-page scan feature is rolling out:
Multi-page scan is rolling out now and will be available to everyone, everywhere OneDrive is available, by the end of the week. You'll need a OneDrive account and the latest version of the OneDrive app on Android (6.5 or higher), or iOS (11.31.5 or higher). The maximum number of pages or images that you can multi-page scan is 10.
Check the demo video of the multi-page scan here.

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