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Microsoft OneDrive Document Multi-Scan Tool Now Available for Everyone

Microsoft says the OneDrive document scanning mobile feature from Microsoft 365 is now available for free to all users.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, has made tweaks to several services to make paid features available to everyone. The latest app to get the treatment is OneDrive. Specifically, Redmond is making one interesting tool available for all users.

For account subscribers, OneDrive allows a phone camera to be used to scan documents. The images can be uploaded to the app as a PDF file. This premium feature is handy for quick saving of documents.

Microsoft says the multi-page scanning tool is not available to all OneDrive users. However, the feature is limited to 10 pages per document. In its announcement, the company says during the COVID-19 crisis the feature could be powerful in the work-from-home era.

“With so many people now working from home, few of us have access to office equipment like printers and scanners. Scanning documents from home, or outside the office, should be easy.  has long offered a free scanning feature from the OneDrive mobile app which lets you scan and digitize single documents, receipts and more.

“Up until now, scanning multiple pages and saving them as single document was a premium feature that required a Microsoft 365 subscription. Today we're making multi-page scanning available for everyone using a OneDrive personal account.”

Functionality

Any document works through a smartphone camera, including whiteboards and paper documents. When the document is scanned OneDrive will automatically convert it into a digital PDF file. Users can interact with the finished file as they would any other stored on the app. You can get this new ability through the OneDrive app on Android and iOS

Tip: Did you know you can fax for free from iPhone? If you are still one of those that send faxes frequently, there is no need to have a fax device for that.

Last Updated on January 27, 2024 2:06 pm CET by Markus Kasanmascheff

Luke Jones
Luke Jones
Luke has been writing about all things tech for more than five years. He is following Microsoft closely to bring you the latest news about Windows, Office, Azure, Skype, HoloLens and all the rest of their products.

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