Snapverter - Converting Photos to read/write PDF documents.

Meadowbrook has licensed this software for use by all faculty & students.

Here is a video explaining how to use Snapverter with Google Chrome to convert photos of documents into a PDF so that it can be a read/write document.

Installing Snapverter

1. Go to the Chrome webstore for Snapverter and click on Add to Chrome

2. Click Add app

3. It will be added to your Chrome Apps. You can click on the checker-box on the top-left to see them.

4. When you click on the Snapverter app the first time, you'll be asked to give it permission to run. Click on your Meadowbrook account.

5. Now you'll see the snapverter home page where it will show you the status of your documents that have been converted.

Converting Photos to Documents

1. Open a new tab (command-t)

2. Go to drive.google.com

3. A new folder has been automatically created, called Snapverter.

4. Open that folder.

The general idea of how to use Snapverter:

1. Take a photo of your document

2. Upload it to google drive

3. Put the photo into the "Drop here to convert" folder.

Techniques for doing that are explained, below:

Three Techniques for Taking and Uploading Photos:

1) Use the Google Drive App on your iPad or iPhone to take a Photo.

Open the Google Drive App.

Click the + at the bottom-right corner

Click Use Camera

After you've taken the photo, click on it to open it.

Click on the three dots in top-right.

Click on Move.

Click on these folders: MyDrive -> Snapverter -> Drop Here to Convert

Once you're in the folder, click Move here.

2) Use the Camera App to take a Photo and upload it to your Laptop via AirDrop

After you snap the photo, use the up arrow at the top of the page to export it.

Click on the photo you want to transfer and click on the AirDrop icon. (Your Laptop also needs AirDrop Turned on in order for this to work.) Select your laptop from the list and the photo will transfer to your Downloads folder on your laptop.

3) Use the PhotoBooth App on a MacBook to take a Photo.

The image looks backward when you preview it in the app. After you snap the photo, it reverses automatically. Make the orientation of the paper match the camera (it's ok if it's sideways).

Center the image on the screen and click the red button.

Flip the PhotoBooth Photo to Portrait Using Preview

Use the Spotlight on the top-right of the Desktop to Open the Preview App:

1, Scroll down to Photos

2. Click on Photos

3. Click on PhotoBooth

4. Click on your Photo

1. Click on the icon to Rotate Left

1. Click on the pen icon to display the edit tools.

2. Use the box to draw a crop box around the image to remove the extraneous parts.

3. Click Crop.

Preview saves the document changes automatically.

Uploading a photo from your Laptop to Google Drive

Open Chrome

Go to drive.google.com

Open your Snapverter Folder

Open your "Drop here to convert" folder

Click on + New button

Click on File upload...

Find your photo you want to upload from your computer. Click Open.

If it was uploaded via AirDrop, that photo will be in your Downloads Folder:

If you used PhotoBooth to take your photo, you will find it there:

Completed PDF Documents

You will locate the completed documents in your Google Drive -> Snapverter -> Finished Folder.

These files can be used in TextHelp PDF to read or write on them. Here are directions on how to incorporate them into Schoology Assignments.