Opinion: Use your smartphone to scan documents

Android users don’t have a built-in way of scanning, but you can capture scans from the Google Drive app, which is free to download if it is not installed on your phone. — Technology phone photo created by jannoon028 - www.freepik.com

My wife and I have started a project to scan some of our paper documents so we can get rid of some file boxes taking up space in our office.

As we were scanning some old greeting cards, we ran across a number of cards with glitter and some with 3D elements that make running them through a document scanner impossible.