Category Archives: Mobile Phone Apps

On-the-go document scanning

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I would like to introduce you to an app that has really simplified my on-the go life.  The apps name is Genius Scan and you can download it for free from the app store.

Genius Scan turn your iPhone into a mobile document scanner.  I hate having to fill in a form, fire up the old PC, warm up the scanner, preview/scan/save as, and then attach to an email to get the document off.  Well, no more of that.  If you have a document that you want to scan, it does not matter where you are, pull out your iPhone (or iPod Touch) open the app, and snap-scan it with the phones built in camera.  The quality of the scan depends on the quality off the camera, but I find that the 3Gs 3 mega-pixel cameras scan quality is more that good enough.

Genius Scan will then do a quality improvement process after which you can select the new document, and emails as a PDF attachment.  Really not much more to it.

This app is great for business man that quickly want to make a copy of a document at a meeting.  A definite must download.  Genius Scan is a free app, but having used it for more that 6 months, I’ll gladly pay for it as well.

Please click on the link below to watch a demo video clip of Genius Scan in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkSidc-j8-I


Camcard Application Review

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The first app that I want to talk about is Camcard. I discovered this app a couple of weeks ago, it was mentioned on Mashable on one of their “Boost Your Productivity” App Reviews.

Camcard is a mobile phone business card scanning application with a difference, currently available on the IOS, Andriod and Blackbery platforms.

Yes, I know that there are many similar type of business card scanning applications on the market, but Camcard’s OCR scanning ability is really clever. What it does is it scans the image of the business card, then recognizes the text on the card using OCR scanning technology. But wait, it then takes it one step further, it also recognizes what field the information would belong to, and adds that information under the add new contact fields of your applications contacts, meaning that it matches mobile with mobile, email with email, name with name etc. The accuracy is astounding.

There are some really bad business cards out there, and if you cant make out the fonts by reading it, then blame the designer of the card, not the app. I must be honest, I have not come across this often, most of the cards I have scanned, I have saved to my IPhone contact without having to edit anything.

Tips and Tricks:
If you set up your GMail account to automatically sync with your mobile phones contacts and emails, your newly scanned business card contact will seamlessly appear in you GMailcontact, next time you visit a PC.

So lets recap. Someone gives you a business card, you pull out your Smart Phone and snap the card with CamCard. You quickly look over the field to make sure that the OCR did its job, perfect. You hit save to contacts and the information not only gets added to your phone contacts, but automatically gets added to your GMail contacts as well.

Just the expression on the business card givers face is worth the download of the app. It is priceless when they don’t know what to do with the business card when you return it to him.

So lets recap. Someone gives you a business card, you pull out your Smart Phone and snap the card with CamCard. You quickly look over the field to make sure that the OCR did its job, perfect. You hit save to contacts and the information not only gets added to your phone contacts, but automatically gets added to your GMail contacts as well.

Just the expression on the business card givers face is worth the download of the app. It is priceless when they don’t know what to do with the business card when you return it to him.