Genius Scan
  • Getting Started
    • Quick Start Guide
      • Genius Scan at a glance
      • Scan documents
      • Take quality scans
      • Quick edit actions
  • Document Management
    • Viewing & Editing Documents
      • Edit, crop and rotate a scan
      • Renaming documents
      • Change a document's page size
      • Delete a document
      • Delete a page
      • Sign and annotate your scans
      • Set up a default filter
    • Organizing Documents
      • Sorting documents
      • Tagging documents and managing tags
      • Create and manage folders
      • Select multiple documents
      • Search your documents
    • Managing Multi-Page Documents
      • Select multiple pages
      • Adding pages to an existing document
      • Merging and splitting documents
      • Reordering pages
      • Moving pages between documents
    • Text Recognition / OCR
      • Enable text recognition
      • Copy text of my scans
      • Search scans with their content
      • Scan and extract a business card
      • Apply Text Recognition on all your old documents
    • Importing pictures and files
      • Import pictures and files (PDF, JPEG...)
      • Import Word, Excel, Web Documents
  • Exporting & Sharing
    • Export Formats & Options
      • Export Scans as PDF
      • Export Scans as JPEG
      • Export Scans as Text
      • Adjusting export settings
    • Export Destination & Shortcuts
      • Manual export instructions
      • Share a document by email
      • Update the email used to export a document
      • Configuring export shortcuts
      • Auto-export rules and configuration
      • Check a document's export history
      • Verify if your documents have been backed up
      • Automatically delete a document after export
    • Service-Specific Guides
      • Export to another app
      • Export to WhatsApp
      • Export via WebDAV
      • Export via FTP
      • Export to the photo gallery
      • Export to Canvas
      • Export via SFTP/FTPS
      • Export to a computer
      • Export to your device memory
      • Export to QuickBooks Online
      • Print documents
    • Expense Reports
      • Set up expense report
      • Generate an expense report
  • Cloud Storage & Backup
    • Back up Overview
    • Built-in Cloud Overview
      • Synchronization & Backup
      • Offloading documents
      • How documents sync across devices automatically
      • Search and filter documents
      • Resolving synchronisation conflicts ⚠️
    • Manual Back-up
    • Transfer Documents to a New Device
  • Subscription, Plans & Account Management
    • Plan Details & Comparison
      • How to subscribe to an advanced plan
      • What happens when my subscription expires?
      • What plan do I have?
      • Cancel your subscription
      • Upgrade or downgrade my subscription
      • Get a receipt from your purchase history
      • Ask for a refund
      • Share my purchase with my family
    • Account Management
      • Create your account
      • Delete your account
      • Update your email address
      • Reset your password
    • Buying Multiple Licenses Online
      • Buy licenses online
      • Manage your licenses
      • Manage billing information
      • Understand pricing & renewal
  • Security & Privacy
    • Document Protection
    • Privacy & Security Overview
    • Privacy Policy
  • Advanced & Developer Resources
    • Genius Scan SDK
    • Configure Genius Scan with a MDM
    • Launch Genius Scan from another app (Developers Guide)
  • Other topics
    • Accessibility Features
    • Troubleshooting & FAQ
      • Troubleshoot Scanning
        • Better automatic document detection
        • How to remove shadows from my scans?
        • My scans are upside down, how can I fix that?
        • What is the DPI of my Scans?
        • How to disable the shutter sound?
        • The camera doesn't work
      • Troubleshooting Email Problems
        • Emails are not sending, or your recipient receives them after a long time
        • The Send button is inactive when I try to email a scanned document
        • An error message tells me my email is not configured
        • I receive multiple emails from Genius Scan
        • I can't send an email on Android
      • I thought I signed up for an account but I can't log in anymore
      • How to recover lost or deleted documents?
      • Genius Scan is taking too much space, what can I do?
      • How to improve the quality of Text Recognition?
      • How to fix the Genius Scan iCloud Drive folder not appearing?
      • Genius Scan is stuck updating
      • How to restore the purchase of the Genius Scan premium features?
      • Why isn't Text Recognition running?
      • How to change Genius Scan's language?
    • Known Issues
      • Send a bug or crash report
      • Scans are blurry on iPhone 15
      • Unable to log in to Expensify
      • Unable to log in to Evernote
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  • Change the page size after scanning
  • Specify a default page size for all your scans
  • Supported page dimensions
  1. Document Management
  2. Viewing & Editing Documents

Change a document's page size

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Last updated 1 month ago

When Genius Scan scans a document, it doesn't know the physical size of the document. If you need to print the documents to their real size, you need to specify how large the pages are.

Change the page size after scanning

  1. Scan a document or open a specific scan.

  2. Tap the Edit button.

  1. Tap Format.

  1. Choose the format.

  1. Scan a document or open an existing document.

  2. Tap Format and choose the print dimensions of your document.

Specify a default page size for all your scans

  1. Open Genius Scan, tap Settings, and tap General.

  2. Under PDF Options, go to Page dimension to choose the appropriate one (see explanations regarding page dimensions at the bottom of this tutorial).

  1. Open Genius Scan, tap Settings > General.

  2. Under PDF Options, go to Page Size to choose the appropriate one (see explanations regarding page dimensions at the bottom of this tutorial).

Supported page dimensions

Genius Scan currently supports the following standard page dimensions:

Letter

8.5 × 11 inches 216 × 279 mm

A4

210 × 297 mm

Legal

8.5 × 14 inches 215.9 × 355.6 mm

Business Card

3.5 × 2 inches 8.9 × 5.09 mm

Receipt

Width of 9cm (3.54 inches), height adapted to scan's aspect ratio.

Fit to image

Width of 210mm (8.27 inches), height adapted to scan's aspect ratio.

Open the Edit screen
Choose the format of your document from the list
Choose the format of your document in the toolbar at the bottom of your screen
Choose the default format of your documents from this list
Choose the format of your document on this orange box at the center of your device