| 07-04-2009 06:24 PM |
| Unregistered |
I use this to take down lab results, opening hours, etc. Last time I used it was when I was in a shop and saw a cool jacket; I took a photo of the tag, then looked up the serial number online.
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| 06-04-2009 09:11 PM |
| Unregistered |
OCR on 5800
Great for business cards- any takers for software to OCR the result in the phone and save the contents as contacts?
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| 06-04-2009 07:03 PM |
| Unregistered |
Shaking from pushing shutter button
Tip: use the timer to make a scan without the need to push the shutter button shaking the camera.
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| 06-04-2009 05:10 PM |
| Unregistered |
neat. tried it, it is a good idea, except that wrinckles on the paper appear too.
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| 06-04-2009 03:48 PM |
| kontraband |
I found that this method works well with your old photos too. 
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| 06-04-2009 02:29 PM |
| raka |
Or use The Gimp (gimp.org), open source, available for Windows and Linux.
Steve, the screenshot above is from a 5800? How do I get a fullscreen 16:9 preview? The buttons on my 5800 in photo capture mode are black, and the preview is 4:3.
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| 06-04-2009 10:40 AM |
| TomJ |
I've done the whiteboard thang after a particularly painfully planning meeting.
Another use is taking pics of bus timetables, if you can't find 'em on the web...
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| 06-04-2009 10:32 AM |
| Ben_Kri |
Pictures of maps
I have used the camera for Roadmaps or maps when I went out hiking. This is good enough for people without a dataplan, or when you are in other than your home-country or network.
And I used it to remember the parking slot in a huge airport parking, focussing on the number of the slot.
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| 06-04-2009 09:05 AM |
| Unregistered |
combine the pic of the white board with the recording you make of the meeting. Job done, an hours snooze  )
I use my e90 to take pictures of posters I come across that I think people I know will like or want to know about. combined with more and more people using email on their phone instead of just relying on MMS means its now dead easy to share info quickly and simply.
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| 05-04-2009 09:53 PM |
| Unregistered |
Alternatives
I've used ScanR and Qipit for the same tasks and they're quite good. Evernote is OK for OCR, but it doesn't export 'scanned' documents like the others.
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| 05-04-2009 09:11 PM |
| garbleart |
Good article Steve. I have been using the same technique for while. I use it in work meetings, taking a photo of the white board at the end of the session, sometimes not bbothering to circulate meeting minutes just emailing the jpeg! Also use my phone to take pictures of articles from newspapers that I want to read later but where I don't want to lug the newspaper around with me.
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| 05-04-2009 09:06 PM |
| bakeeneitje |
Use Evernote
Combine the use of your camera scanner with Evernote
Evernote will perform the OCR and you will be able to search your scanned documents
You can Upload your notes or photos by email.
Try it
Marcel
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| 05-04-2009 06:28 PM |
| Tzer2 |
Regarding the photo processing section, a decent free photo application for Windows is Irfanview:
http://www.irfanview.com/
It's not the most advanced photo editor out there, but it's free, fast and small. I've used it for years and it does everything I want from a photo editor.
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| 05-04-2009 05:07 PM |
| Unregistered |
Blog post with some extended thoughts
Steve, a very nice article indeed! I was pondering this a while ago actually b/c I find this a really great use for an autofocus phone. Actually I got an E71 over a Blackberry b/c the BB lacked the autofocus camera that I require for precisely this purpose!
I used your article as an inspiration for a follow-up post in my blog that elaborates on a few of your thoughts and adds some ideas that I have found during my implementation of that concept.
You can find it at http://w0nk0.posterous.com/how-to-us...e-cam-as-a-sca
Thanks for a nice article that I will certainly refer other people to in the future!
W0nk0
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| 05-04-2009 03:59 PM |
| Ringweekends |
Quipit?
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