{"id":830,"date":"2012-11-13T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2012-11-13T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T03:56:00","slug":"arstechnica-use-your-phone-as-a-document-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/arstechnica-use-your-phone-as-a-document-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Arstechnica: Use your phone as a document scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arstechnica has an<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/09\/the-power-of-two-use-your-phone-as-a-document-scanner\/\"> article about using a smartphone as a document scanner<\/a> &#8220;in a pinch&#8221;. It&#8217;s fun to see the possibilities that technology opens up.<\/p>\n<p>Seven years ago, I wanted to scan some journals for archival purposes. Using a traditional flatbed scanner would have taken far too long, and wouldn&#8217;t have worked well since the pages were bound. So I mounted my Olympus C-8080 digital camera on a tripod, added crude lighting from lamps, and quickly photographed the pages. It may not be perfect, but it&#8217;s better than nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arstechnica has an article about using a smartphone as a document scanner &#8220;in a pinch&#8221;. It&#8217;s fun to see the possibilities that technology opens up. Seven years ago, I wanted to scan some journals for archival purposes. Using a traditional flatbed scanner would have taken far too long, and wouldn&#8217;t have worked well since the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/arstechnica-use-your-phone-as-a-document-scanner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arstechnica: Use your phone as a document scanner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}