Scan your Vaccination Card for Easy Access

In this video, I will show you how you can scan your vaccination card into your iPhone. We do this through the Notes app. Let’s go to my iPhone.

Now, the first thing we need to do is open up our Notes app. We scan this through our Notes app. Now what I do is I create a new note. From here, what I need to do is I need to scan my vaccination card so then I have easy access to it. How do we do that?

Well, to scan anything into the notes app, what you do is you tap on the camera icon here. When I tap on this, I’m going to have a few different options, one of them being Scanning the Document.

Now, why would you scan a document as opposed to taking a photo? Well, when you scan a document, what is going to do is automatically crop to that document. If the document is crooked, it’s going to straighten it out. Also, what it will do is it’ll make any text in that scan document searchable; as an example, this scan document that I’m going to show you is going to have the word vaccination in it. So then what I’m able to do is search my Notes app for vaccination, and it’ll pull up this document that I’m about to scan. So there are several advantages to scan in a document, as opposed to just taking a photo of it.

Let’s go and see how this works with my vaccination card. So I tap on this, it opens up the camera and now what I need to do is I just need to point my camera at the document. So now I just aim it up, and I’m going to take this a little crooked here, but watch what happens. The iPhone notices the document, and it automatically scans the document. Now, if I go and aim my camera at this document again, my vaccination card again, let’s go ahead and do that again. This time I’m going to angle it this way and watch what happens. Let me move the cable here. It found it, and now it just took two different scans. If I wanted to scan it manually, I can also just tap on the scan button here. I want to view the scans, I tap on the actual scans here, and now I can view those scans. So here they are. This is two of two. I swipe over to the right, and I’m looking at one of two. So now I can choose which one is best, and it looks like the second one is best. So now I’m just going to delete this one here. And I have this one document. If I want to retake it, I can retake it, but I will save this. I tap on Done, and now I tap on Save, and it saved that document.

You’re also going to notice that it actually named the document. This is another nice feature with scanning documents. So it looks at the document, and if it can find a title, it will go and rename it. So I didn’t even have to name this note. It picked up the name from the vaccination card. So now when I go to Done here, and I go back over to all iCloud, we can see we have my vaccination card.

And again, this is searchable. I can just search for vaccination, or I could search for COVID-19. When I do that, it’ll find this note.

I want to pin it, so it’s easily accessible, so then it’s going to be up here with my pinned notes. All I do is just swipe over to the right, and now it is pinned.

So that’s how we can scan our vaccination card into our Notes, so we have easy access to it. All we have to do is just create a new note, tap on the camera icon, and then tap on scan, aim the camera at your vaccination card. The iPhone will automatically scan that document, and it will automatically name it if it can find the title.

So that’s how we can scan our vaccination card into the Notes app on the iPhone.