CamScanner
Is that a page scanner in your pocket?
Android App of the Week (NSFW) My other job as the manager of a small record label frequently requires me to circulate press clippings and other bumf to everyone connected with a particular project. One option is to do this when I get back to the office but a better and faster one is to use CamScanner.
CamScanner will take, crop, enhance and convert a picture of a page, receipt or menu into a PDF file and then let you upload it to the cloud or send it as an e-mail attachment.
Capture and crop a single image (left) or a batch of scans (right)
Once you have taken a picture, the app superimposes a frame over it to let you see what the auto-trimmer is planning. You can move all the corner points manually if you think you know better. Once trimmed, the image is enhanced in the interests of legibility.
Image quality naturally depends on the ambient light, the quality and size of the print you are shooting, the steadiness of your hand and the quality of your phone’s camera.
The app will enhance images for you (left) and zoom in to check details (right)
If lighting is a problem you can manage your phone’s flash from within the app, setting it to auto, off or forced. I’ve always been happy with the end results, and the flash syncs reliably.
As well as taking fresh images you can import pictures from your phone’s gallery and enhance/convert them, though I confess this is a feature I’ve never actually found a use for.
Add notes to your scans (left) and tags too (right)
To keep things ship-shaped, you can drag a notepad out across a file and make pertinent notes regarding the what/why/when of the scan. These notes embed themselves into your PDFs so they can be read by anyone anywhere any time.
If you want to scan multiple pages of a book there is a batch setting that lets you shoot as many pages as you want and then ties them altogether into a single PDF. You can even re-order pages.
Notes are embedded in the PDF for viewing in other apps
If you don’t plan on using the app regularly there is a free advert-paid version. This puts a watermark on all PDFs - but at the bottom right corner it’s hardly intrusive - and limits the number of images you can take in a batch to three. ®
Size 7.6MB
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COMMENTS
Oh lighten up
FFS
It's a grab of a page from the Onion book Our Dumb Century, one of the funniest things you will ever read in print although fair warning for the under 5s and prissy little twonks, it does contain the occasional rude word.
Made me laugh as well as demoing the app. Well done El Reg.
Re: just to be clear
Sam, since you'd already said you'd be taking your page views elsewhere, there seemed little point in responding.
Since you ask, my view is that the use of swear words is entirely commensurate with the age, outlook and robustness of the vast majority of El Reg's readers.
FWIW, The Onion's comedy is hilarious - precisely because of the swearing. Could the author have used a tamer source? Certainly, but the review would have been less engaging and entertaining.
Personally, I also think it's important not to take offence when no offence is intended, as is the case here. One should feel more confident in one's beliefs when some else is seemingly rude about them. Turn the other cheek, etc.
Sorry to see you go, especially after staying with the site for so long.
Yes, Love the Onion, enjoy swearing drinking and shagging etc. however I really like being able to read reviews on my employers time and making a fucking rewiew of just a bastard PDF twatting app is fucking retarded...
Just my opinion, cunts.
