Phones as scanners

   Ever need to scan something without removing it from the stacks? Or is the book just too unwieldy to put on the scanner? You could use a wand scanner or try lugging a portable scanner around, but a recent article on ArsTechnica.com discussed a different possibility – using a mobile phone as a document scanner. (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/the-power-of-two-use-your-phone-as-a-document-scanner/ ) In the article, Andrew Cunningham discusses the different apps that are available and their advantages and disadvantages, including how to use direct on-device OCR to create documents on the fly from photos. Other such apps include FasterScan, TurboScan, and Prizmo. The functionality is even available through the Google Drive app by creating a document from a photo.