scanR is an App for the Blackberry Storm that harnesses the phone's sharp auto-focus, flash and excellent exposure control and turns it into a copier and character recognition tool.
The App is available via App World and via the scanR website, but via App World appears to be the better deal.
The image is captured via the camera and transferred to scanR where it is transposed into either a JPG, PDF or a text file.
Business cards can be automatically downloaded into your address book.
Long pages of text can be copied and processed into text.
It makes a great portable copy machine that can be interfaced with any printer via the web interface.
Documents can also be sent to a fax number from the handset.
scanR "turns the stuff we have to deal with in our daily lives--receipts, business cards, faxes, jottings on the back of napkins--into something digital. ... It's practical. And it's simple. wsj.com
scanR is one of those applications I keep using over and over. If you go to the effort to shoot a straight image the copies look pretty close to a dedicated copy machine.
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