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How To Scan and Convert Your Paper Planner into PDF and Edit in GoodNotes 5

How To Scan and Convert Your Paper Planner into PDF and Edit in GoodNotes 5

   If you have long wanted to digitize your paper documents, books, notes, or planners and continue to maintain them in digital PDF format - let's watch this training tutorial for GoodNotes 5.
    With the built-in document scanner, we will do it in a couple of moments.
1) Open your document library in Good Notes and click on the button - New Document
GoodNotes 5 files library and Document Creation Button ipadplanner.com
2) Pay attention to the additional menu - select Scan document
Scan Document Button in GoodNotes 5 for convert paper document to digital PDF for annotation ipadplanner.com
3) Point the camera at the document, try not to shake the iPad if you see a rectangular highlighted area - Press the button - Take a photo.
If the wrong area of the document highlighted - do not worry; you can correct it after creating a photo scan
Scanning Process in GoodNotes 5 ipadplanner.com
4) After creating a photo - Click Keep Scan, then select a new page to scan
Keep Scan button in GoodNotes 5 for creating several pages pdf document ipadplanner.com
5) After you have scanned all the required pages - Click the Save button.
Important - press this button only at the end of the scan; if you press it after each scan - GoodNotes will create separate documents for each scanned page.
Save Document after scanning in GoodNotes 5 ipadplanner.com
6) A slider will appear on the screen for converting scanned pages into a working PDF document. Now you can start taking notes or studying.
Convert Photo Scans to PDF Document for GoodNotes 5 ipadplanner.com
7) you can check if all the pages you scanned, open Page View and check them
Page View in GoodNotes 5 ipadplanner.com

 8) Now it's time to take notes, highlight the main thing and study your documents and materials

PDF Annotated page inside GoodNotes 5 after scanning ipadplanner.com

Highlight stroke in scanned document by GoodNotes 5 ipadplanner.com

 

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