How to scan a thing from a iphone application

Question

i want to know how to scan a paper from a iphone cam and i need to read the data on the paper later i want to store the data...

is it possible..?

please give me a thought...

Thanks..

Answer 1

There's an app for that.

Pocket Scan

Answer 2

Well, it it very much possible. I am not sure really how do it, but you should definitly have a look at OCR.

Try to get a look at Google Googles in the official Google iPhone app, this can actually read text off a picture you take, even at an angle.

Answer 3

Take a look at this OCR API: http://www.wisetrend.com/wisetrend_ocr_cloud.shtml

It is based on an OCR engine that can be specifically optimized for mobile phone camera images (low-quality, low light conditions, etc.) See http://wisetrend.com/ocr_and_data_capture_blog/?p=198 for more details on this.