DOC Document Camera

Use your phone as a document camera

Point your phone at paperwork, drawings, products or anything on your desk, and see it live on your computer. No app. No USB cable. Completely free.

Freeze frameEnhance textCapture pageWorks with a projector
Open this on your computer

Use My Phone connects your phone to a computer, so the code you scan has to be on the other screen. Open this page there and you are paired in about ten seconds.

usemyphone.com/document-camera
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Nothing to install on either device, and every tool is free.

Scan to start
Ten seconds, then pick any tool
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Teachers & tutors

Write on paper with a pen while the whole class watches on the projector.

Accountants & solicitors

Show a client a document over a video call without scanning or emailing it.

Repairs & demonstrations

Keep both hands on the work while the camera stays overhead.

In real use

What people use it for

The jobs this tool actually does, in enough detail to tell whether it fits yours.

Teaching with a visualiser you already own

Work examples on real paper while the class watches the projector. Enhance text keeps pencil legible; freeze holds the finished example while you set the next one.

Showing paperwork on a video call

Hold the contract, sketch or form under the phone instead of scanning, emailing and waiting. The other side reads it live.

Scanning multi-page documents to PDF

Capture page after page into the tray, then save the lot as one PDF. The text reader turns each page into copyable text as you go.

Marking and feedback

Capture a page of handwritten work at full resolution, then annotate or file it — quicker than photographing and transferring one page at a time.

Receipts, recipes and reference cards

Anything flat goes under the phone and comes out a clean capture on the computer, without a flatbed scanner in the house.

Questions

Can I use this with a projector?

Yes. Put the live view into fullscreen and every control disappears — just the page on screen.

Can I capture multiple pages?

Yes. Each capture is added to the page tray, and you can download them together.

Do I need a stand?

It helps, but anything that holds the phone above the desk will do. Rotation is one click if the phone is sideways.

Also free from Use My Phone: send a PDF for signature — twenty documents a month where the usual free plan gives three, ten signers on each, and nobody you send to needs an account.

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