How to create PDFs on Android devices using Google Drive

It hasn’t at all times been that straightforward to create a PDF utilizing your cellphone. A number of years in the past, after I began dealing with my mom’s payments, I spotted I wanted a fast option to scan her paperwork whereas I used to be at her house. Somewhat than drag a scanner round, I discovered a helpful Android app referred to as Tiny Scanner that permit me flip paper paperwork into easy-to-store PDFs utilizing my cellphone’s digicam. 

Later, Google launched the beta of its personal scanning app referred to as Stack, so I started utilizing that to create lots of my PDFs. It gives fast scans and categorization and was just a bit extra enjoyable to make use of.

Nevertheless, as is Google’s wont, that firm is now sunsetting Stack and giving some (though not all) of the app’s talents to create, edit, and retailer PDFs to Google Drive, the storage service app that comes put in on Android telephones. (I suppose I needs to be grateful that Google has included not less than a few of Slack’s options into Android’s Drive app, however the helpful categorization and different robotically added particulars at the moment are gone, making it simply that rather more tough for me to seek out that one doc I would like proper now.)

So now, if you wish to create a fast PDF utilizing Drive, right here’s the way it works:

You can even edit an current PDF:

In fact, this isn’t the whole lot you’d need to do with a PDF file — for instance, you may need to take away a web page, add textual content, or password-protect a doc. In that case, sadly, you’ll most likely have to make use of Adobe Acrobat or another for-pay app.