What Scanner exports to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text
Scanner 1.0 is awaiting App Store review. This guide previews the submitted version; a public download is not available yet.
Scanner can export DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and TXT files. Word, Excel and PowerPoint exports contain page images; TXT contains recognized text rather than the page layout.
App used in this guide: Scanner ↗
Before you begin
Choose the format based on your next task. Use PDF to preserve a scanned document, an office format to carry the page images into another app, or TXT when you need text you can copy and edit.
Step by step
- Open a saved document in Scanner.
- Open More, choose Convert and select the required format.
- Wait for conversion and find the result in the Files tab.
- Share the file and open it in the destination app to check the result.
Check the result
In an Excel export, a photographed table is an image, not automatically reconstructed spreadsheet cells. A Word export likewise does not turn every printed sentence into editable paragraphs.
Limits and troubleshooting
If you need editable wording, use OCR and review the TXT result. If you need a working spreadsheet, check and enter the values into cells yourself; do not assume a successful XLSX export means formulas or tables were recovered.
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