Android: If your phone has a good camera on it, why would you need a separate app to grab a head-on shot of paper? Handy Scanner straightens and fixes perspectives, enhances readability, makes easy work of multi-page documents, and pushes PDFs quickly to wherever you’d like.
Gizmodo’s reader photo challenge this week is particularly impressive: taking an awesome photo of you as a child and recreating it as an adult. I had promised Giz editor Danny that I’d submit my own entry, but when I went to do it, I realised something: I have done a lousy job of scanning my childhood photos.
When you need to scan an image, you use a regular scanner, but what do you do when you need to scan a 3D object? Apparently you use a webcam, a laser pointer and some free software.
A potentially handy feature of Google Docs is its option to perform optical character recognition (OCR). As we’ve suggested in the past, that offers a convenient and free way to convert scanned images into text. But just how accurate is it?
If you’ve ever wondered how to digitize your book collection, this how to video from YouTube user Carl Youngblood shows how he scanned in one technical book on LaTeX.
Dear Lifehacker, I recently bought a $69 HP Deskjet F4480 in an effort to go paperless (it was cheaper to get a scanner/printer combo) and was wondering if there are any programs that let me scan from paper -> PDF? The device came with HP software, but I’d rather not install it (I want something that doesn’t take over my system).
