Genius Scan
Recently, while waiting for my tires to be rotated, I wasn’t
able to finish a great gardening article I had been reading. No problem.
I used the free Genius Scan app on my iPhone to scan the last few of
pages of the article and save them into one PDF document to read later in
iBooks. Genius Scan detected the page
orientation, let me adjust the sides of the image to include a whole page or
crop only a portion, enhance the image, and combine multiple scans into just
one document. I also had the option of emailing the scans to myself as a JPGs or PDFs or uploading them to other
apps like Kindle, AppToolkit, Evernote and Dropbox. With Genius Scan + ($2.99),
I could have also exported to Google Docs, Twitter and Expensify or printed
them with an Air Printer. In the past, I
would have simply used my phone’s camera, but with Genius Scan’s ability to
correct the keystone effect of snapping a photo from an angle and its ability
to create multiple page PDFs, it will be my app of choice in most similar
circumstances. If you don’t have an iPhone, there are other similar apps available for Android, Blackberry, and WindowsPhone 7. Genius scan should be
coming to Android very soon and you can sign up here to be
notified when it available.
My Top 5 uses for Genius Scan
- Scan receipts for expense reports
- Scan articles to read later.
- Scan recipes, notes on a bulletin board, displays etc.
- Scan student work and or artwork.
- Since iPhones have a limit of 5 photos for email, create a PDF with as many photos as needed.
What can you scan today?
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