Bad quality of scanned documents

Hey guys, facing the issue that scanned documents on my iPhone 12 Pro Max with Files app are pretty bad quality. Guess it started with iOS 15 beta 3.

Unfortunately issue still persists with current non beta iOS 15 release. It‘s the same on iPad OS 15.

When I launch ‚scan with iPhone’ using Preview app on macOS quality is good as always. Hence looks like issue is related on files app or PDF processing on iPhone.

Have anybody else seen the same?

Thanx and cheers, Flory

Answered by Wanted797 in 692668022

It appears 15.1 has fixed this issue.

The issue with 15.1 is only resolved for new models of devices. It has been fixed with my 2020 iPad Pro, but hasn't been fixed with iPhone 8. Scans with iPhone 8 are still unusable compared to scans taken like half year ago. Resolution is here but image is blurry, like this part has been changed on purpose for older devices. Made many test scans with both iPad and iPhone, compared with many scans done with iPhone half year ago (this is my work tool so have planety of those). To dig further into detail, the flaw is not in "generating/saving pdf" anymore, but already visible directly on iPhone screen after taking a scan, before saving. Like the focus algorithm has been changed and not whole document is in focus now. No matter what I try the text and signs that are usually at the bottom of the documents on both sides are always blurry. Double checked normal photo taking to make sure it's not physical flaw on the lens. I am really dissapointed. I don't like the idea this is product ageing on purpose here. Any ideas?

It is still NOT FIXED in 15.2, iPhone SE 2016. The picture seems to be OK, but the exported pdf has very low quality, an A/4 page is 86 kbyte :( This is useless without quality settings :(

I have the exact same issue in IOS 17.3.1, iPhone 12 mini. The issue was NOT resolved in IOS 15.1 unfortunately. Is there any solution? Because right now the app is utterly worthless for scanning purposes ...

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