{"id":998,"date":"2016-08-23T15:44:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/?p=998"},"modified":"2016-08-23T22:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T22:22:42","slug":"user-your-smartphone-as-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/user-your-smartphone-as-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Smartphone As A Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us take pictures with our phone to store memories of our experiences and share with loved ones, or foe! But there are other uses for your smartphone&#8217;s camera. One of them is to take pictures of documents for capture, just like your desktop scanner does at work or at home. Well maybe not as good yet, but it definitely does the job and will only get better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/user-your-smartphone-as-scanner\/google-docs-04-27-2011-1303923430-870x320\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1000\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1000\" src=\"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-docs-04-27-2011-1303923430-870x320-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"google-docs-04-27-2011-1303923430-870x320\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-docs-04-27-2011-1303923430-870x320-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-docs-04-27-2011-1303923430-870x320-768x282.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/google-docs-04-27-2011-1303923430-870x320.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We scoured the web and found a brilliant article highlighting how this can be done efficiently!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to J. D. Biersdorfer of NYtimes, you can use your phone in other ways. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/24\/technology\/personaltech\/turn-your-smartphone-into-a-pocket-scanner.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read\u00a0his article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us take pictures with our phone to store memories of our experiences and share with loved ones, or foe! But there are other uses for your smartphone&#8217;s camera. One of them is to take pictures of documents for capture, just like your desktop scanner does at work or at home. Well maybe not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/user-your-smartphone-as-scanner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use Your Smartphone As A Scanner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[57,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecomputerpotato.com\/thecomputerpotato\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}