Comments on: How To Build Your Own Smartphone Document Scanner

By: Collin Tucker

Collin Tucker — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:15:28 +0000

This is a great weekend project. This idea and product is in such high-demand that both the Scanbox (first link) and Scanbox Plus (second link) hit their limit on their first production run. I may purchase or make one to place in the college library I work at to encourage paperless document sharing.

Thanks again for posting.

http://thescanbox.com/collections/scanbox
http://thescanbox.com/products/scanbox-plus

By: Aaron Chung

Aaron Chung — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:34:33 +0000

Never thought of that!!

By: Douglas Mutay

Douglas Mutay — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:31:21 +0000

What about the quality of the image, the light, etc… is it really going to give a readable document? Anyway, will give it a try once I have some free time because if it’s really working it’s will be very useful.

By: Dads House Ed Center

Dads House Ed Center — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:30:42 +0000

I’m going to obtain materials and try this, though I will need to borrow a phone to test it as I do not even own a cell phone. I have been looking for something to promote to the Dads House members, for scanning documents from a family law case file.

By: Sriram Gopalakrishnan

Sriram Gopalakrishnan — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:44:04 +0000

it’s very cool stuff.thanks

By: Ernest

Ernest — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:20:34 +0000

Great! Now I don’t need to buy a tripod.

Do you feel tired… Well there’s a Napp for that … lol (joke)

You get it?

By: Deep Patel

Deep Patel — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:36:11 +0000

Not very portable though is it?

By: Dan Griffiths

Dan Griffiths — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:54:24 +0000

Nice and simple! Beats a tripod because it flat-packs so it’s more portable.
I found a nice email to PDF tool at http://www.leafdoc.com/ that works for all platforms & doesn’t need any installs on your phone. Bonus! :)

By: Omstavan Samant

Omstavan Samant — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:58:54 +0000

nice method… i used to take pics but had to take several pics till i got one which was just good enough…

By: Anoop V

Anoop V — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:33:08 +0000

Yes, CamScanner is a great app for this purpose. No hardware required. Just take a pic, and it’ll automatically correct for the lighting. It also allows you to change the perspective angle and image region and gives a really high-res image.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:44:29 +0000

very clever idea but nor sure I’d want to carry one around!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:21:10 +0000

Nice idea. You need a phone / tablet with a good camera though and ample lighting.

By: Hindie

Hindie — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:37:47 +0000

This is just what I was searching for because even with an ipad, I have difficulty holding it steady enough to take a good scan.

By: nitin m

nitin m — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:47:03 +0000

gr8 !

By: Fayz

Fayz — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:37:52 +0000

This was a very weird read.