Google Docs Mobile Scanner Loses Documents After Capture
Users scanning documents within the Google Docs mobile app find their scans vanish immediately after capture, with no trace in Drive or recent files. The scan functionality works but the output is not saved or surfaced anywhere. This makes the built-in scanner unreliable for document capture workflows.
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