USE YOUR PHONE AS A SCANNER
For many people, the camera is a big consideration when it comes to choosing a smartphone. Even mid-range models tend to have impressive photographic hardware; the phone in your pocket will almost certainly be able to capture 12-megapixel images (probably larger still).
That’s a lot of detail. In fact, it’s enough to capture an entire A4 page of text and images at full print quality. With a little care and the right software, therefore, it’s perfectly viable to use your phone for digitising tasks that once required a dedicated scanner. That’s great because, as the world has increasingly moved away from physical letters and documents, personal scanners are becoming something of a rarity. They’re still incorporated into multifunction printers (see p74), but if you don’t have one of those, your phone can do almost everything that once required a traditional scanner.
Scanning photos with your phone
If you want to digitise a printed photo, a dedicated scanner still has the edge. One advantage is resolution: Canon’s CanoScan LiDE 400 flatbed scanner has a native resolution of 4,800 pixels per inch (ppi), while Epson’s Perfection V600 Photo goes all the way up to
