If you are planning to upload a document to a website or app there are three basic steps:
- Capture the document image,
- Save the image somewhere that is accessible, this may be your laptop or desktop computer or your phone,
- Find the document and upload it
There are different ways to capture a document image, depending on the type of document you have as well as the type of device you have to capture it. In this instance we are trying to take a scan of your COVID vaccine card using either a scanner on your phone or the multi-function device at your office, and upload it to the Vaccine Recorder App.
Scan using a smartphone app
There are many scanner apps for your smartphone including AdobeScan, Microsoft Office Lens, SwiftScan and CamScanner. This example uses CamScanner, which is a free scanning app.
1. Open the scanning app on your phone
2. Select the ‘new scan’ icon, it will probably be a camera
3. When the document is shown on the screen, is in focus click the camera icon again
4. The document will be shown with 8 ‘handles’ (dots) around it. These can be adjusted in case they capture more area than just the document or not enough of the document.