Google Drive PDF scanner silently fails on multi-page documents
Google Drive's built-in document scanner repeatedly fails when creating PDFs from more than a handful of image pages, discarding all work without warning. Users are forced to switch to third-party alternatives like Adobe Scanner. The failure is silent and wastes significant time on longer documents.
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