I scanned a 15 page document using NOTEs on my iPhone, I cannot export all pages to a PDF (only one page of the notes file is made into a PDF)

i used my iphone XS Max running latest iOS, cannot export all pages to PDF on the phone. I also tried on my macbook air m1, and the 15 page note is visible, but when I try to export to PDF, only one page exports (the first) or whatever thumbnail I have selected. I exported the notes and tried using pages, and the same thing happens when I try and export to PDF. This happens with export function and when I try to print and select PDF.

I'm not able to find an answer on the support pages

Posted on Oct 21, 2023 4:52 PM

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Jeff_Pa

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Posted on May 17, 2024 6:33 AM

On the iphone you have to switch to attachment view on the three dots menu top right and then open the attachment at which point it separates the pages properly.

If you're in Notes on a MacBook, then you have to double click the attachment within the note to open a view that separates the pages before you export to PDF.

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Jun 20, 2024 4:49 PM in response to eapjones

This is creating massive pdf docs (24mb for 3 scanned pages). previous version of notes (4.10 on ventura) handled these same scans making smaller pdfs. why is this happening? any ideas?

Cheesy99 Author

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Oct 22, 2023 5:56 AM in response to VikingOSX

Hey Viking, I did use the File Export > PDF, and it only created a PDF with one page. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

I have MS Word and Excel on my Macbook. I just rescanned all 15 pages into a Word document using my iPhone to scan (right click, scan documents) - scanned each page page, saved, then scanned all 15 in the same manner. I saved the Word file as a .docx, then saved as a PDF. All 15 pages converted from the Word file to the PDF file.

So I'm covered with this workaround for the PDF doc with the scanned pages I needed, and when time permits I may try again with multi page scans into Notes AND separately into Pages, just to see if I can figure out the problem. It may be the way I scanned the documents originally into Notes, but I've used this function before and it's worked for me with three page scans -> PDF so not sure.

Thanks again for your responses, from a fellow scandinavian.

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I scanned a 15 page document using NOTEs on my iPhone, I cannot export all pages to a PDF (only one page of the notes file is made into a PDF)