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Scan with the kDrive mobile app

This guide explains how to scan or digitize documents (multi-page) using the mobile app kDrive (application for iOS / Android smartphones or tablets).

 

Prerequisites

  • You must have a kDrive or kSuite subscription.
  • Install the kDrive mobile app (application for iOS / Android smartphones or tablets).

 

Scanning Documents

To quickly digitize paper documents and store them on your kDrive:

  1. Launch the kDrive mobile app on your iOS or Android device.
  2. Tap the icon ‍ at the bottom:
  3. Tap Scan a document in the panel that opens:
  4. If necessary, allow the app to access the requested permissions (camera, etc.).
  5. The document search and detection process is performed automatically as soon as the image is stable (text and a circle will indicate this), but you can tap the central circle to manually trigger a capture.
  6. If necessary, enable the use of the flash.
  7. When scanning a series of documents, you can manually insert a file that is already in your device's gallery to add it to your final multi-page document:
  8. If the selected image is not suitable, you can repeat the operation.
  9. Once the image is selected, you can apply a rotation, a filter such as black & white, cropping, etc.
  10. You can add other scans to your final document:
  11. Once you have added all the pages (the number is displayed on the button), tap Finish in the bottom right corner:
  12. If your scan contains multiple pages, it will be grouped into a PDF to be saved in the location of your choice on kDrive; if there is only one image, you can choose to save it in .JPG format (iOS only):
  13. The document is sent to kDrive and you can view it:
  14. You can also find it on all your connected devices:

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