Goodbye third-party apps! WhatsApp’s new scanner feature lets you scan and share documents like a pro

Scan and share documents directly in WhatsApp with its new scanner feature. Update your app to explore seamless document sharing.

Scan with WhatsApp: What's in for you
Scan with WhatsApp: What's in for you(Freepik)

Now you might ditch your third-party document scanner! Yes WhatsApp reportedly plans to bring its own scanner feature. According to WABetaInfor, the messaging platform will make document sharing easy for you with its new feature. 

Now, you can scan documents through the app itself and then share it. Let’s have a look at how it’s going to change your WhatsApp experience.

Scan with WhatsApp

WhatsApp seems to have taken a step forward to simplify your document sharing experience. The new feature will allow you to scan documents directly within the app. As of now the new feature is available to some users. You can find it in the latest WhatsApp for iOS update (version 24.25.80). This feature will be added in the usual sharing option that we get in WhatsApp. So, how do you use this feature?  Here’s how you can use this feature: 

  • First you need to open WhatsApp. Now choose the sharing menu.
  • Now choose the document sharing option. 
  • Next you need to choose the ‘camera’ option. After the camera opens, you will get the scan option simultaneously.
  • Now scan the document and make adjustments as you want.After editing is done you are all set to share that document.

Please note that this feature also comes with suggestions on how and where to crop the documents. In addition to this you can also adjust contrast and brighten the document.

Other major updates

WABetaInfo first reported this feature as part of the WhatsApp iOS 24.25.80 update. The quality of the scan has been kept high in readability and  clarity. This eventually makes sure that the scanned documents can be presented in a professional manner. So, the feature is ideal for both business-related and personal needs. Moreover, from sharing receipts to sharing contracts, or notes, it aims to provide you all.

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This article was first uploaded on December twenty-six, twenty twenty-four, at thirty-six minutes past eleven in the morning.
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