Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The JotNot FAQ covers the questions we receive most frequently through our email support. Here are the questions of the FAQ:
- I have blank documents. How do I delete a document?
- How can I access the PDFs that JotNot creates?
- Can I take a picture now, but process it later?
- I’d like to create smaller scans (JPGs and PDFs)?
Deleting Documents and Pages
To delete a document, simply swipe to delete in the Document List view. A delete button will appear to the right of the document that you selected. Tap it and the document will be deleted. This is shown in the figure below:
There are two different ways to delete a page within a document. The first is to simply swipe to delete in the Page List view. A delete button will appear to the right of the page that you selected. Tap it and the page will be deleted. This is shown in the figure below:
The second way to delete a page is from the Document Viewer. A single tap will bring up the controls—tap the trash icon at the bottom left of the screen to delete the current page. You will be show a confirmation dialog as shown in the figure below (the trash icon is highlighted orange):
Accessing The PDFs
JotNot automatically creates PDFs for each page and for each document that you create. There are actually a couple of ways to access the PDF files. The first and easiest way is to attach the PDF to an email and send it by doing the following:
- Tap
in the Page List screen or the Photo View screen and select either “Email Document” or “Email Page” respectively - If emailing a page, choose PDF as the attachment type
- Write the body of the email and send it—the PDF will be sent as an attachment
The other way to access your PDFs is via WiFi. This is the preferred way to access several PDFs or the PDFs have many pages. Here are the steps to accessing the PDFs using the WiFi Server feature:
- Turn on the WiFi server in JotNot (this option is located in JotNot’s settings page which is accessible from the main/landing view by clicking the “info” button in the top left corner). When the dialog appears saying “WiFi Access On”, the WiFi server should be running and accessible (as shown in the figure above). At this point, don’t close the dialog. Leave it up until you’ve finished the remaining steps.
- Next, open a web browser on your laptop or desktop and go to the web address printed in the dialog window. The computer needs to be on the same WiFi network as your iPhone.
- Download the PDF files that you need. You can download entire documents or single pages.
- Turn off the WiFi server when you are done by closing the dialog.
Deferred Processing
JotNot allows you to rapidly capture several scans and defer processing them until a later time. To do this take a new picture or import an existing one as you normally would.
Instead of hitting the Process button, hit the Cancel button on the upper left as shown in the figure above. JotNot will save the scan allowing you to move on to the next image that you want to capture or import by tapping 
or 
, or will even allow you to exit the app saving your scans for later.
Later, when you are ready to process the image go to it in the document viewer Photo View. A single tap will bring up the controls here. Tap 
to process the image as shown in the figure above. Tapping also allows you to reprocess any image at any time.
Creating Smaller Scans
JotNot has two settings for controlling the size of scans: Resolution, and JPEG Quality. These controls appear under Settings => Enhancement Options (shown in the figure below):
You can get smaller scans (PDFs and JPGs) by turning down both of these sliders, although they work in different ways.
The Resolution slider controls the actual resolution in pixels of the enhanced image produced by JotNot. Turning this slider down reduces the number of pixels in the enhanced image.
The JPEG Quality slider controls the amount of compression used in the JPEG algorithm. The lower the quality setting, the more the compression. At low quality levels (or alternatively at high compression) you will begin to see artifacts in your scans.
Therefore there is a tradeoff between quality and file size in using either of these sliders. Generally smaller the file size, the worse the quality of the scan will be either in terms of the number of pixels or in terms of the compression.
