Nothing can beat having the iPhone's camera with you but many, many tools can better how that camera shoots documents and what you can do with them later. 糖心Vlog staffers show you what apps and hardware we use to scan everything from single receipts to the contents of a history archive. You do already have a document scanner in your iPhone with its regular camera. So if you're not going to scan many documents, there's little to stop you just taking a normal photograph of it. There's nothing to stop you doing it on an iPad either, except that it's substantially harder to hold one of those steady over a document and without casting a shadow. When you do that, the document scans go into your Photos camera roll where you can see them on your iPhone, iPad or back on your Mac. Then you can later select any number of images from your iPhone's Photo app and send them to iBooks as one single PDF. It isn't OCRd, it hasn't been turned from photographs of text into something you can search and select, but it's all there and good for things like cooking directions so you don't have to store a box in the freezer when a bag will do, or the like. Similarly, you can send the photos to just about any iOS app. Apple Notes, for instance, will take them all in one go too -- but it will create a note that has each image stored separately. We like PDFpen. It costs costs $19.99 on the App Store and lets you pick out photographs to put into PDFs. That's really meant for adding an occasional photo to some other document, though: you can only select a single image at a time. We'd recommend it for single items like one page or one receipt at a time. It's good for making a fast scan of something you'll only want to glance at later, not work from or share with anybody. Roll your own You can do a huge amount with photographs in the