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Would love to help upload some stuff, anyone know the best and easiest (key word here) way to scan stuff on their iphone. Would love to just be able to scan a card and export/email as a jpeg. I've trie a couple and haven't found an app that does this easily/cheaply. Thanks!

This has been brought up a few times in the past and the general consensus was....there isn't. 

Phones don't have scanners, only cameras.  Any phone "scanning" app just uses software to make adjustments to the photos to try and make them look less like a photo.

....I'm aware my phone doesn't have an actual scanner haha. The adobe scan app pumps out great looking "scans" from the iphone, but they export as pdf and you have to then convert them to jpg on your computer, etc. Just a pain, bummer there isn't just an easy way to do this.

Directly from the FAQ of Image Guidelines under "how do I scan my cards" (Note item #6):

When submitting images to include on the site, please follow the following guidelines.

Images should be:

1. In .jpg format
2. At least 250x350 pixels (for standard-sized cards)
3. Less than 1MB in size
4. Properly cropped
5. Rotated to the proper orientation
6. Scanned, not photographed
7. Without any signatures, writing, or watermarks (unless released that way by the manufacturer)

Your intentions and enthusiasm to upload images are appreciated. But the bottom line here appears to "use a scanner" to scan cards and fwiw, I am in agreement with that. We take great pride in having high-quality scanned card images on TCDB. There's even forum threads here with scanner recommendations and advice.