ScanR: Turn your camera phone into a scanner
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Oliver Starr at MobileCrunch has a long and excellent writeup on ScanR, a new free service that allows you to take a camera phone picture (or any digital picture) and turn it into a searchable PDF file. If you have a camera phone with at least one megapixel of resolution, ScanR is great for turning things like whiteboard images and paper drawings into something more usable. This is particularly interesting for heavy travellers who do not have a scanner handy.
To use it, you simply take a picture and email it to scanr. They supply you with an enhanced pdf version by email.
The company recently announced a $4.65 million Series A round of funding from Trinity Ventures and Thomvest International.
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(Via TechCrunch.)
July 12th, 2006 at 4:06 am
I came across this the other day (www.clicktoscan.com), it’s currently in Beta format, seems to work well, might be worth a look.
The service does exactly the same as ScanR with the added bonus of doing it all from your mobile phone handset. The image seems to be sharper as well. It’s ideal for when you’re on the move and need to fax or send an important document.
You can send scans directly to email addresses (no need for a PC) and it even lets you convert pictures taken on a camera phone into .pdf - pretty cool. Also great for getting a copy of notes on a whiteboard.