Continuity binds macOS and iOS, and with macOS Mojave it’s become even more useful. Now, Continuity Camera lets you use your iPhone or iPad’s camera with your Mac as a document scanner and much more.
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This helps you avoid the hassle of uploading and transferring images, making your iOS device a full-fledged scanner. Let’s see how it works.
Continuity Camera Prerequisites
Broadly speaking, you can break the Continuity Camera feature down into two parts. First is a feature that directly inserts a photo into the app; the other lets you scan an image or document. Like other stock apps, the Continuity Camera app has limited functionality but gets the job done.
Both these Continuity Camera features will function only when you’ve met these conditions:
Do remember that scan quality will depend on your iPhone/iPad’s camera.
Use Continuity Camera to Add Photos to Documents
Let’s look at how to use Continuity Camera to insert a photo into a document. These instructions are for Pages, but should work across all Apple apps, including TextEdit, Mail, Notes, Numbers, and Messages. Ensure you’ve updated the app to the latest version for best compatibility.
Use Continuity Camera to Scan Documents
Continuity Camera comes in handy when you want to scan documents or even something trivial like a fuel receipt. The feature saves your scan as a PDF, making it great for archival.
Again, we use Pages here but you can scan documents across various Apple apps:
As you can see, Continuity Camera is an easy way to scan as many pages as you want into a document. However, it’s a shame that Apple didn’t include OCR functionality How Image-to-Text Works (aka Optical Character Recognition)Pulling text out of images has never been easier than it is today thanks to optical character recognition (OCR) technology. But what is OCR? And how does OCR work? Read More here.
Use an iOS Device to Send Pictures to Your Mac
Transferring photos from an iOS device to a Mac is now easier. Continuity Camera allows you to snap a picture and store it directly on your computer. There’s no uploading to the cloud, using AirDrop, or hooking up your phone to your computer.
Here’s how to use your iOS device to take a picture and save it to your Mac:
That’s all there is to it—the picture directly appears on your desktop. To scan a document instead, select Scan Documents in the third step.
Common Continuity Camera Issues and Fixes
We’ve witnessed the utility of Continuity Camera, one of macOS Mojave’s best features. However, the new feature does suffer from some minor pitfalls. One of the most common issues is a Could not import from iPhone message.
If you run into this problem, try the steps below to troubleshoot it:
Alternatives to Continuity Camera
If you need more than Continuity Camera can offer, check out one of these iOS alternatives. We’ve covered other awesome mobile document scanner apps The 7 Best Mobile Document Scanner AppsYou don't need a scanner if you have a smartphone! With these Android, iOS, and Windows apps scanning is at your fingertips. Scan, save to PDF, and be done. Read More for additional choices.
1. Scanner Mini
Scanner Mini offers a feature that lets you scan text files and images. This text recognition (OCR) feature comes in handy while scanning documents that need further edits. The app also offers Radar, a feature that automatically scans your photo gallery for bills and receipts.
Overall, Scanner Pro offers a more powerful set of scanning features compared to Continuity Camera. It’s a paid app, but you can check out Scanner Mini first if you don’t need the advanced features.
Download:Scanner Mini (Free) | Scanner Pro ($4)
2. Adobe Scan
Adobe Scan is another popular document scanning tool. You can convert the scanned documents into PDF files. However, the PDF export feature is available only in the paid version.
Download:Adobe Scan (Free, subscription available)
3. Office Lens
Office Lens from Microsoft is capable of scanning your documents, receipts, notes, and business cards. The built-in text recognition feature recognizes both handwritten and printed text.
Download:Microsoft Office Lens (Free)
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CamScanner also deserves a mention. This app lets you document notes, receipts, business cards, and whiteboard discussions. The app also offers an automatic touchup feature that cleans up your text and optimizes your scan.
Download:Camscanner (Free, subscription available)
The Best New Scanner in Town
Continuity Camera is a nifty feature. I’ve taken advantage of it to scan my favorite articles and put them in a folder. It might sound like a stretch, but Continuity Camera seems like a good replacement for flatbed scanners, at least for general purposes. It’s impressive how Apple has integrated the feature into nearly all first-party apps.
Of course, the feature isn’t perfect. Hopefully, Apple will include OCR and add other quality-of-life features to the scanner. In the meantime, you might want to check out the Image Capture app on your Mac 4 Practical Ways to Use Your Mac's Image Capture AppYour Mac's Image Capture app is a quiet but useful tool. Here are some practical uses for Image Capture you must check out. Read More , which has plenty of great uses.
Thanks for your reply - I have done a 'check for updates' via the various programs and I am up to date. I would of course back up before loading, but am I right that I can't uninstall from Yosemite once its loaded? This is what a friend told me who has had Apple products for many years and it is that that scares me a little. I am still pretty new to Apple and really like all my various products, but having worked with windows for so long, there are still things I just don't know. Did you find Yosemite a big improvement from OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)?
The current version is Office 2011 for Mac. As you can see (it was actually released late 2010), it hasn't been updated a bit over four years. It is mostly compatible with any documents created in the Windows versions of Office, but newer features of Office 2013 for Windows may not open as expected under the last boxed Mac version. If you invest in Office 365, that will be feature compatible to the Windows versions. However, it's pay forever subscription software.MS finally explained the huge lag in upgrading the Mac version. It is now scheduled to be released in the fall at the same time as the Windows version.
Both will be released as Office 2015. The biggest change by far though is that they will now (so they say) finally be fully feature compatible. The older email Mac client version of Entourage, and the current email client Outlook, have always been behind (often, far behind) the capabilities of the Windows versions.The new feature compatible to be release was due to shutting down their Mac Business division.
In the past, MS created the next Windows version of Office and released it. Only then would the Mac Division finally get to see what the Windows side had been developing and then try to mimic all of the changes. Since they were under a deadline of typically four to six months, the Mac version was always feature short. Not enough time to implement and test everything before the release date.So anyway, MS is finally treating Mac users with the respect they should get for buying their software.
There was never a good reason Mac users paid the same amount for each upgrade Windows users did, but didn't get the same features. Intuit still treats Mac users like dirt. The Mac version of QuickBooks Pro is still way behind what the Windows version can do. Intuit even has a corporate policy (not kidding) that they will never by feature compatible. Kurt Lang wrote:MS finally explained the huge lag in upgrading the Mac version.
It is now scheduled to be released in the fall at the same time as the Windows version. Both will be released as Office 2015. The biggest change by far though is that they will now (so they say) finally be fully feature compatible.If you believe that then I have this for sale you might like to buy.Outlook for Mac does not support MAPI, nor does it support ActiveSync, nor does it support creating PST files and nor can it access PST files and there is zero chance of Outlook 2015 for Mac doing this either. (Outlook for Mac can import PST files but even if you only want to access a single email in a PST you have to import the whole possibly multi-gigabyte PST.)Word for Mac does not support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew even though OS X itself does and has for years, I would be utterly amazed if this was rectified either. If you believe that then I have this for sale you might like to buy.Perhaps you should read a bit more closely.
I'm quite aware the current version of Office is missing much of what the Windows version can do. I clearly stated the Mac version is far behind.The current version is Office 2011 for Mac. As you can see (it was actually released late 2010), it hasn't been updated a bit over four years.
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It is mostly compatible with any documents created in the Windows versions of Office, but newer features of Office 2013 for Windows may not open as expected under the last boxed Mac version.The older email Mac client version of Entourage, and the current email client Outlook, have always been behind (often, far behind) the capabilities of the Windows versions.The upcoming simultaneous Windows and Mac versions of Office 2015 are supposed to be feature equivalent. When MS closed the Mac Division, it didn't just go away, it was merged with the Windows division so they are developed together instead of separately. Apple Footer.This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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