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How to turn your smartphone into a flatbed scanner to sign forms or digitize text

Posted by asteroid
Tags: tools, howto, scanners, phones.smart, author.marc saltzman, source.yahoo
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/turn-smartphone-flatbed-scanner-sign-163309887.html

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Published
May 11 2022
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5 comments

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    JXM
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    I've been using an app called JotNot for around a decade now to do this and it works flawlessly.

    I've been using an app called JotNot for around a decade now to do this and it works flawlessly.

    3 votes
    1. FishFingus
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      Thanks, downloaded. Hopefully I'll never need to use that shitty wireless HP printer again.

      Thanks, downloaded. Hopefully I'll never need to use that shitty wireless HP printer again.

      1 vote
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    cmccabe
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    I am finding a lot more handy features like this recently. Just a week ago, I discovered that my phone will analyze photos of flowers I’ve taken and suggest their names. I don’t know how long this...

    I am finding a lot more handy features like this recently. Just a week ago, I discovered that my phone will analyze photos of flowers I’ve taken and suggest their names. I don’t know how long this feature has been enabled (I’m probably the last person on earth to become aware of it), but I love it. Among other things, I’ve been using it to finally put names to many of the more obscure weeds growing in my yard: https://cmccabe.sdf.org/weeds.html

    2 votes
    1. TheRtRevKaiser
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      Those are some beautiful flowers. Our standards for lawns are so bizarre, my wife and I recently saw a house that had almost no lawn, just raised beds and a lot of succulents and cactus. My...

      Those are some beautiful flowers. Our standards for lawns are so bizarre, my wife and I recently saw a house that had almost no lawn, just raised beds and a lot of succulents and cactus. My simultaneous thoughts were, "That's so beautiful" and "I bet their neighbors hate that..."

      3 votes
    2. unknown user
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      Allow me to reassure you, then. :P

      (I’m probably the last person on earth to become aware of it)

      Allow me to reassure you, then. :P

      3 votes