{"id":142,"date":"2006-01-05T19:33:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T02:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2006-01-05T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T02:34:11","slug":"scanr-scanningcopyingocr-with-your-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/2006\/01\/05\/scanr-scanningcopyingocr-with-your-cell-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"scanR &#8211; scanning\/copying\/OCR with your cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget has <a href=\"http:\/\/ces.engadget.com\/2006\/01\/05\/scanr-lets-you-copy-scan-with-your-cameraphone\/\">short article<\/a> up about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scanr.com\/\">scanR<\/a>.  scanR is an interesting product service &#8211; here&#8217;s their description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scan documents or whiteboards, anywhere, anytime, using only your camera phone.<\/p>\n<p>scanR is simple to use:<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Take a picture of a document or whiteboard with your     1 megapixel or better camera phone.<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Send the picture to scanR<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Receive the scanned image in email or fax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have used OCR (optical character recognition) software in the past with scans I made using my scanner, but had never thought to try it with my camera phone (which I will do this weekend).  With camera phones getting cheaper and better, this could a fairly big deal for genealogists who need to copy some information but  don&#8217;t have the time or means to do it on the spot properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget has <a href=\"http:\/\/ces.engadget.com\/2006\/01\/05\/scanr-lets-you-copy-scan-with-your-cameraphone\/\">short article<\/a> up about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scanr.com\/\">scanR<\/a>.  scanR is an interesting product service &#8211; here&#8217;s their description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scan documents or whiteboards, anywhere, anytime, using only your camera phone.<\/p>\n<p>scanR is simple to use:<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Take a picture of a document or whiteboard with your     1 megapixel or better camera phone.<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Send the picture to scanR<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Receive the scanned image in email or fax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have used OCR (optical character recognition) software in the past with scans I made using my scanner, but had never thought to try it with my camera phone (which I will do this weekend).  With camera phones getting cheaper and better, this could a fairly big deal for genealogists who need to copy some information but  don&#8217;t have the time or means to do it on the spot properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilegenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}