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My old standby printer, an HP Deskjet, has finally decided it doesn't want to work anymore. I still held onto it a few years ago, even though I bought a new wireless printer, because the copying and scanning functions were working fabulously still, and it was one of those printers you could refill the ink cartridges without it going haywire. It won't copy anymore. Frankly, this is ok. I have to move in a few months, and I need to pare down what I take with me.
Enter a neat little app that I downloaded a few weeks ago, but hadn't played with yet. I found CamScanner in the Google Play store on my Android phone and decided to give it a try. My cousin is anxiously awaiting a copy of my grandparent's marriage license, and I hadn't gotten it into the mail to him yet, so thought I would use this as my test piece.
You take a picture of the item to be scanned using the camera on your phone, from within the CamScanner program. It will then crop it to be just the document, and then enhances it. I first saved it as a simple jpg (you can click on it to see it larger).
You also have the option of converting it to a pdf, before you send it to where you want it to go. I really like this option. I prefer pdf's over jpg's, but that is a personal preference.
The app gives you a lot of options for sending your document to another location. You can email it to yourself or someone else, you can upload it to Dropbox, Facebook, pretty much anywhere.
This is definitely going to be a useful tool for my genealogy research, and also my homeschooling with my children. Super simple, easy to print out what you scanned. Win-win.
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