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A portable scanner in my pocket! (or faxing from a mobile device)

Posted by Julie on June 25, 2009 – 12:13 pm
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I’ve been exploring creative ways to use the camera on my Windows Mobile device to boost my productivity.  Qipit provides a way to copy and email or fax documents to anyone at any time from any web enabled mobile device. 

Qipit works from any mobile device that has a web browser and is not limited to windows mobile handhelds, iphones or any other mobile device.  Qipit is almost like having a scanner in my pocket.

 

Click a picture from your cellphone camera (or any digital camera)

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The quality of the processing is dependent on the quality of the picture that is emailed to qipit, so make sure the lighting is good and set the resolution on the cellphone camera accordingly.  Qipit’s website provides the following recommendations:

For your mobile phone: You need a camera that has at least a resolution of 1 MegaPixel. For creating copies of documents you will need to make sure your camera phone has auto-focus or a macro-mode and it is turn on. You do not need this for making copies of whiteboards and flip charts. Set the resolution to High quality to get the best results. Also, turn off MMS or picture resizing if your carrier give you the option.

For your digital camera: You don’t need to use the maximum quality because you would generate pictures that need to be sized down. For example a resolution of 5 mega pixels is not required. Set the quality of your digital camera to 3 mega pixels and you will get a very good result.

Email the picture to your qipit account. 

Qipit processes the picture and turns it into a PDF file.  It takes a few minutes for qipit to do this, but once completed Qipit will send you an email and let you know it’s done.

 

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Share the file with yourself, friends, family, clients!

Once the file is processed, you can download (view), email, or fax the file directly from qipit’s website or you can go to qipit’s mobile website from your mobile device

Qipit from your computer

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Qipit from your Mobile Device

Qipit sends an email to let you know the file is ready to go once the file is processed.  If you’ve got email set up on your mobile device, you can select the link in the email to go to qipit’s mobile website. 

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From Qipit’s mobile website you can:  
Download the file (PDF) View the original image (Image),
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Email the file Fax the file
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Automatically fax or email files

If you include email addresses or fax numbers in the body of your email to qipit, qipit will email or fax the files to those folks as soon as the files are processed into a digital PDF file. See “Why wait to send an email or fax? Qipit right from your phone!” for more information.

Qipit is free! Go signup and see for yourself how great it is!

To start using qipit, all you need to do is register for an account and start taking pictures.

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  • Jeffrey
    There is a freeware program that converts your mobile pictures into PDF format- jpeg2PDF. Just take pictures (whether a document or a person) with your mobile phone and run the program. You choose which pictures to convert to PDF. It works on my Omnia without a hitch.
  • breley
    I don't believe Qipit supports OCR at present; it simply embeds the image in question in a PDF. For OCR one might be able to snap a picture with the built-in camera (hopefully with reasonably crisp text) then upload the image to something like http://www.free-ocr.com.
  • I've got a couple of questions, Julie.

    First, does this do any kind of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the image, so that text in the PDF is selectable? Based on the sample above, it doesn't look like it does.

    Second, if there's no OCR, what's the benefit of this? I might use it to fax something (if FaxZero or a similar service wouldn't work), but why would I E-mail the PDF to somebody instead of the original JPEG?

    Thanks,
    Steve
  • There is no OCR on the image...it cleans it up and saves it to PDF file.

    I think this will be useful when attending conferences or even when conducting student lectures (if I want to take a picture of the whiteboard to distribute to my students). In my example, I prefer the cleaner white background to the yellow background and think it will show up better, especially on a mobile device.

    I don't send many faxes these days, but every now and then I am asked to fax something out, I think this will be quite convenient and the PDF file is somewhat smaller than the picture.
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