How can I open scanned documents within Notes in Preview?

[davidg4781]

I scanned some documents on my iPhone using the Notes app. Usually I'll just open the PDF file within the Note, send it to my email, and then I have a PDF copy.

This time, I'm trying to pull it from Notes onto my Mac so I can send the email through there. I have two different notes. After messing around with one of them for a while I finally got an Open with Preview box and was able to save it in Preview. I don't know how I did that but I can't replicate it with the other.

I do have an export to PDF option but it gives me a lot of excess border around the edge. I can go back to my original way of doing it but I kind of want to figure this out.

I'm currently on macOS Ventura so maybe this is a bug? I didn't spend much time on Monterey and really never thought of doing it this way.

 

[BrianBaughn]

On my Mac (with Monterey) if I select the PDF and hit the spacebar (to invoke QuickLook) there's an "Open with Preview" button on the top right of the QuickLook window.

Additionally, if you have Preview always in your dock, or if it's open, you can drag the PDF on top of the Preview dock icon.

 

[davidg4781]

On my Mac (with Monterey) if I select the PDF and hit the spacebar (to invoke QuickLook) there's an "Open with Preview" button on the top right of the QuickLook window.

Additionally, if you have Preview always in your dock, or if it's open, you can drag the PDF on top of the Preview dock icon.

Hitting space looks like what I did last time! Thanks for that tip. It feels like they should put open with Preview in a share sheet or something.