How To: Use Your Cellphone As A Scanner

There is a way to use your cellphone as a scanner! To do it all your phone needs is a camera and the ability to send/receive emails. The service converts the image you take into a PDF document, ideal when you want high-quality copies of important documents or photos you’ve taken.

Here Is How You Do It:

1. Take a photo of the document you want to scan using your phone
2. Save the photo to your phone
3. Send the photo as either an MMS or Email to doc@scanR.com
4. Wait for an email/msg to come back with an activation code
5. Click the ‘activation link’
6. Wait a few seconds for an email to come back containing your image in PDF format.

What Is This Good For?

• Keeping high-quality digital copies of important documents or business cards
• Save interesting info from articles/magazines/newspapers you only have access to for a short amount of time (like on a train)
• Saves time going to the scanner when researching in a library
• Scan real estate documents remotely
• Save tax forms digitially in high quality format
• The service is ideal for anytime you save a photo but want a larger better quality picture saved

Cost And Other Tidbits
The first scan you do is free, after that you have to pay $4.99 (or £2.50) per month. Or you can pay annually which works out much more cheaper at $29.99 for the full year. The photos you send must be 1100×800 or larger. In conclusion if you regularly want to save pictures and documents like business cards, magazine info, important photos then this is a great service.

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