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Turn Your Phone into a Scanner, Faxer, and Filer

April 18th, 2007 @ 3:49 pm

Categories: General

Tags: ScanR, Phone, Scanner, Whiteboard, David Goldenberg

If you've got a cameraphone with more than one megapixel resolution, then you can take advantage of a cool free service called scanR. It lets you take photos of whiteboards, business cards, and documents and upload them via email to its website, where it cleans up the images and presents them back to you in both jpeg and PDF formats.

It's a great way to keep notes on strategy sessions (simply turn the jpeg-ed whiteboards into a powerpoint presentation and email it out to your colleagues) as well as keep track of receipts and papers you collect when you're out of the office. (TechCrunch has some pictures of what scanR is able to do.)

The PDF files of receipts and documents that ScanR created for me weren't searchable on the website, but by feeding them into a free OCR program like Microsoft Office Document Imaging, you can easily turn them into useful Word files. (Jon Galloway provides a tutorial here.)

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    Workdemon

    04/27/07 | Report as spam

    Hmmm...so how could I use this?

    At my not-for-profit we have a person who was hired to outreach to low income people and get them signed up with health insurance. The hardest thing about this is actually getting people to come to the offices with all their papers. The woman has a camera-phone, so...I'm going to suggest she do use this website you're suggestin (better try it out this weekend first). And i'll look like a hero. cool.
    Gee, glad i found you...

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