In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers an online service that can turn your camera phone into a scanner, a new high-speed scanner with a tiny footprint, and a universal driver that can make virtually any scanner Mac compatible. Don't miss the next issue.
Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:
MacGyver Your Next Meeting
By Dennis Kennedy
Remember MacGyver? Often confronted with a near-impossible situation, he managed to use only the materials he found at hand to solve the problem and win the day. Imagine, if you will, that you find yourself in a situation where you need to make a copy of a document and have only your cell phone, or just a digital camera. What would MacGyver do?
He might very well use scanR, which has created applications and services that enable you to copy and fax documents using a camera phone or a digital camera. With scanR, you'll impress your clients and colleagues by capturing and sending the information you need.
scanR is a Web-based service. You create a user account. When you want to scan a document, you simply take a picture of the document, trying to fill the whole screen with your document. You can take pictures of documents, white boards, and even business cards. You can easily scan and store business cards from events or save what you've written on whiteboards before they get erased. For certain phones, you can download and install the scanR Mobile application to make the process easier and faster.
You then send your image to scanR from a camera phone using the MMS protocol or send JPEG photo images. Shortly thereafter, you'll receive in your email digital copies of your image in PDF format for you to use and print.
scanR provides a quality score to help you perfect the art of taking pictures of your documents. You even get messages alerting you that a photo is out of focus. You can send up to 15 pictures in one batch.
scanR supports sending faxes to most phone numbers in North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. You scan, fax, or email your images from your My Scans page. If you don't receive a copy, your scans are collected at your My Scans page in a searchable gallery. scanR is currently a free service. A premium service is planned. Learn more about scanR.
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