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>Few mobile OSes ship with a builtin "Scan" app in the same way that they all have a "Camera" app.

What is the problem? I had many systems where you just send a picture to a email then to a server, there it got OCR'd and converted to a PDF(A) or whatever, then send back to the sender-email as attachment or link and archived.

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If I emailed myself a JPEG from my phone I would absolutely have to look up the best way to convert it to a PDF. I don't know off the top of my head as I normally use a PDF scanning app.

In iOS Files app you can export an image to PDF by long pressing it and selecting Quick Actions > Export to PDF

Yeah it's not a manual thing (ABBYY FineReader Engine or FlexiCapture SDK) but at home i do it with pdfsandwich:

http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/

It's actually a bit odd thinking about it that it's not a common native phone function as capturing PDFs from paper is an incredibly common thing for people to need to do these days.

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