Your Mobile Camera Phone As A Portable Scanner

I just noticed a thing about scanners: they act the same way as digital cameras, and if they came equipped with memory cards, have built-in data storage space, along with a low-end processor, they would act as a digital video recorder as well! Now, because of fast communication technologies, we definitely have a portable scanner with the functionality of sending such scanned digital images to either our home desktop PCs, our laptop PCs, or similar gizmos of our friends and colleagues! If you don't have the analytical prowess as I do to understand and actually see where I'm going, please read on, my friend.

Our mobile phones, specially those equipped with digital cameras, may very well be a formidable solution to our portable scanner needs. Plus, it has the capability to send via multimedia messaging the scanned images, so not only does our mobile camera phones give us portability, it also provides us with the flexibility we need in those times of, well, scanner-moments! We just need a mobile camera phone, a suitable memory card data storage capacity, and the skill to shoot those pictures and documents as if it were scanned using a real computer scanner in order to answer our portable scanner needs.

With this, I'm also thinking if there are already OCR applications for mobile phones that are out on the market. If there are, please do let me know, for this would give me the power to scan the ton of books in the library our professor has been telling me to read for the past few months without using my library card, which I unfortunately lost in a drunken stupor a few months back. I would then just have to convert the scanned images into audio formats so as to listen to it anytime I need by using the very instrument I used to scan the books: my mobile camera phone - now there's something even an IRIS portable scanner can't do!