How to scan documents in Proton Drive

The Proton Drive mobile apps for Android and iOS support document scanning. This feature turns physical pages into digital files that upload straight to Proton Drive.

Scanned documents are protected by end-to-end encryption. The app can only access the pages you choose to keep, and nothing else from your camera roll.

You can use the document scanning feature to upload receipts, business cards, meeting notes, sketches, cookbook recipes, product labels, warranty cards, medication instructions, or anything else you might otherwise lose track of.

Start a document scan

1. Open the Proton Drive app and sign in with your Proton Account. If you don’t already have one, create a free Proton Drive account.
2. Go to Files and navigate into the folder where you want the scan to land.
3. Tap + in the top-right corner.
4. Select Scan document.

5. Grant Proton Drive camera access if you haven’t already.

6. Take a photo of your document

• By default, Proton Drive automatically detects the document and photographs it for you, but you can switch to manual capture if you prefer.
• Captures are not saved to Proton Drive automatically, so you can shoot multiple pages and decide what to keep.

Edit scanned documents

Scroll through your scans and review each one. For each, you can:

• Retake the photo (useful if you’re saving multiple scanned documents in a single PDF file)
• Delete scans you don’t want to keep
• Apply filters
• Rotate the page
• Adjust the document edges
• Erase marks or stains (Android)

When you’re ready with editing the scans, tap Next (Android) or Save (iOS).

Save scanned documents

1. Add name for your scan.
2. On Android, choose whether to save the scanned documents as:

• PDF (all pages are combined into a single document)
• JPEG (each page is saved as a separate image)
• Both PDF and JPEG

On iOS, only PDF is available.

3. Tap Save. You’ll receive a notification on your phone when the upload finishes.