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

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:17:03 +0000

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.

By: ProfJulie

ProfJulie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:05:14 +0000

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.

By: breley

breley — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:54:16 +0000

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.

By: Pony99CA

Pony99CA — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:23:03 +0000

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

By: Gadget Feed

Gadget Feed — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:50:53 +0000

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