ScanR turns business cards into contact information on your cell phone. It seems like a cool service if it
works like the examples show. Basically you take a picture of the business card
using your cameraphone (requires 2+ megapixels, which is not too common) and send it to
ScanR. They take this and use come kind of OCR to convert it to a Vcard and send
it back to your email. This can also be used for white boards and documents.
Robert Lerchenfeld
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Actually, the mobile copy technology and concept you’re describing was first pioneered and showcased in 2005 by an innovative European company called Realeyes3D. They have launched a service in the US called qipit (www.qipit.com) during DEMOFall 2006 last september. With qipit you can use your camera phone or digital camera to turn pictures into documents in seconds. You can then easily share the black and white or color clear crisp digital copies with anybody from or store them online in your private, secure document center.
I did try the service and can tell you it works in almost any lighting conditions and delivers very good quality copies, provided you have a decent camera phone (1.3 + Mpixel w/ autofocus)
I think both services are decent. The thing about scanR that I like is that it does the text recognition. Otherwise I can do most of this stuff from my cell phone. I tried the business card one as well and it was really cool from scanR to get the vCard. I could careless who was first, more about who is best.