Genius+Scan

Genius Scan is an app available on the App Store and Google Play that turns your mobile device into a scanner. Using your device's camera and photos, Genius Scan converts a picture of a any scannable document into a scanned copy. You can then save the file to your phone or share it in many different ways. There is both a free version and a paid version ($6.99). This page discusses only features available on the free version.

Getting Started with Genius Scan Uses for Music Class Resources
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Getting Started with Genius Scan
Creating a Scan Saving a Scan Exporting a Scan
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Creating a Scan
1. Find the orange camera/photo button in the lower left corner. Clicking the camera side of the button will open your camera app to take a new picture to scan. Clicking the photo side of the button will open up your photo albums to allow you to import an existing photo.

2. When you click either the camera button or the photos button for the first time when using the app, iOS devices will prompt for permission to access either your photos or camera. Click "OK."

3. Once you have either selected your photo from your photo album or taken a picture of the document you want to scan, you will crop the size and shape of the area you need. To do this, use your fingers to adjust the orange outline to your preferences. A closeup with crosshairs will appear in a circle on your screen to help you fine-tune the parameters of your image. When you have finalized your shape, click "Use."

4. If it looks like a black and white document, Genius Scan will automatically enhance the image to remove all shadows and variations in color so that the image becomes completely black and white.

Before and After: 5. You can override this enhancement using the enhancement tool by clicking "No Enhancement," or you can click "Color" to make the colors of your scanned document more vibrant. You can also rotate the direction of the image and export to various destinations. All these options can be found at the bottom of the screen.

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Saving a Scan
Once you are ready to export, you have several options. First, you can choose how to export. You can either click the export button at the bottom of the page or click "Save" at the top of the page. If you choose "Save" at the top of the page, your scan will save within the Genius Scan app. With this option you are only able to save scans in PDF format; however, this option does allow you to group additional images together into a single document. You can either add additional images immediately using the "+" button to start scanning a new image or add them later whenever you make a new scan by selecting "Save to Existing Document" when you click Save again. You can access these documents right when you open the Genius Scan app in the main menu. You can also export these documents in many of the same ways you can export individual scans (see below). Back to section 

Exporting a Scan
You can also choose to export a scan to other apps by using the export icon (square and arrow) at the bottom of the screen. If you choose to export this way, you are given the option between saving in PDF or JPEG (photo image) file types. You can also change the resolution and export to various apps. For the free version, only the apps in orange are available for export.

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Uses for Music Class

 * Quickly scan a form you just printed when you don’t have a scanner
 * Take a picture of a whiteboard to save and post notes online
 * Archive receipts for music equipment or for your bookkeeper
 * Make a copy when you have no copier available
 * Save handouts in digital format

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Resources

 * Genius Scan Support

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