Scanning into notes, no camera icon

I needed to scan some documents so I could email, but in Notes on both my iphone and my iPad, there was no camera icon. Don’t know how that happened. But I found some advice on this forum to try to hard stop the Notes app, and when that didn’t work for me, to remove the app and reinstall. I got a message that uninstalling the app would lose my locally store notes but my cloud stored notes folders would be still accessible. I have notes on iCloud, gmail, and my Charter mail folder. I didn’t know how I could save my local notes, but there weren’t that many, so I deleted the app and reinstalled. Well, I lost all my notes on the iPad, and only the iCloud folder came back and it’s empty. But my phone still shows my notes in iCloud and the other folders.

How can I get my iPad connected again correctly to my notes on iCloud? How do I reconnect the other folders?

I’ll need to get scanning working again on my iPhone, currently no camera icon showing, but I want to be sure not to lose the docs notes in these cloud folders.