Scanning landscape documents (certificates, spreadsheets, wide forms)

Certificates, tables, panoramic forms — plenty of paper is wider than tall. Scan them as they are: landscape isn't a problem to correct but an orientation to preserve.

How it plays out

1. Photograph the wide original with the phone held wide (fill the frame — the usual rule).
2. ToPDF crops and orients it so the content reads correctly — a landscape certificate stays landscape, right-side-up.
3. In a mixed document, each page keeps its own orientation; viewers rotate per page automatically.

When you might rotate anyway

• A sideways-bound report whose pages read top-to-bottom when turned — tap Rotate to taste; your choice sticks.
• Printing considerations: printers place landscape pages sideways on portrait paper under “fit” automatically; no pre-rotation needed.

Frequently asked questions

Auto-orientation flipped my wide table to portrait — why?

Rare, text-sparse layouts can read ambiguously. One Rotate tap fixes it permanently for that page — manual settings outrank the model.

Do landscape pages make files bigger?

Size follows pixel area and content, not orientation. A wide page is just a page.