This Underused OneDrive Feature Will Help You Finally Beat Paper Clutter

Reducing paper clutter has never been easier with this OneDrive feature that many people don’t use.

This Underused OneDrive Feature Will Help You Finally Beat Paper Clutter

Key Takeaways

  • You can digitize your documents using OneDrive mobile scanner to clear physical clutter.
  • OneDrive enhances the readability of scanned documents by automatically correcting the perspective and adjusting brightness and contrast, among other things.
  • To scan a document, open OneDrive on your mobile device and take a picture using the app—it will be saved to a OneDrive folder.

Looking to beat paper clutter but don't have a scanner around to digitize your documents? Instead of discarding potentially important files, you can download the OneDrive app and use one of its most underused features—the mobile scanner.

OneDrive's Mobile Scanner Helps Decrease Physical Clutter

Sometimes, it’s important to keep the originals of certain documents, especially if they're medical, legal, or insurance-related. But many of the documents, such as receipts, invoices, reports, forms, and applications, that clutter our desks, boxes, and other storage spaces, can be digitized to clear space.

The OneDrive app allows you to scan documents by taking pictures and then storing them in the cloud. On top of that, OneDrive enhances their readability. For example, it applies perspective correction to align them correctly, and it also adjusts brightness and contrast to improve the quality of faded or poorly printed documents.

Scanning documents with the OneDrive app also makes them easier to share. You can also arrange them in different folders and subfolders, creating a storage system that isn't limited by physical space.

You can also easily find documents you need on OneDrive using tags and filters thanks to the metadata it creates when saving them. This is better than rummaging through drawers and boxes to find a document that you forgot about months ago.

How to Digitize Your Documents with OneDrive's Mobile Scanner

If you don't have the OneDrive app already, you can download it on the App Store or Google Play. Once installed, launch the app and tap the camera icon in the middle.

This Underused OneDrive Feature Will Help You Finally Beat Paper Clutter

Position the document within the camera frame, ensuring the important information is visible. Then, tap the white solid circle icon to take a picture.

This Underused OneDrive Feature Will Help You Finally Beat Paper Clutter

You can adjust the borders of the scanned document to show only the important information. Afterward, tap “Confirm” in the bottom-right corner to create the document.

This Underused OneDrive Feature Will Help You Finally Beat Paper Clutter

If this is a multipage document, tap “Add” and capture the next page. Keep doing this until you've captured all the pages you need.

This Underused OneDrive Feature Will Help You Finally Beat Paper Clutter

You can edit the document by adding filters and annotations or cropping and rotating it. You can find all these options by tapping “More” at the bottom.

When you're finished, tap “Done” in the bottom-right corner. Give the document a name, and then tap the blue checkmark in the top-right corner to save it to OneDrive.

This Underused OneDrive Feature Will Help You Finally Beat Paper Clutter

OneDrive will save the document as a PDF. From there, you can easily share it with others through email or by sending them a link to the document.

After you scan the files, make sure you do a little OneDrive organization to keep everything tidy. Use descriptive folder names, consistent file naming conventions, and tags and metadata for easy search and retrieval. You don't want to beat physical clutter, only to create digital clutter instead.

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