Brian Benzinger has published
Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 2 at Solution Watch. It is full of great online Office types of applications. I was looking for something that might be extremely useful to my teachers who have to submit Alternative MCAS Assessment Portfolios in Massachusetts. I have been sending emails to these teachers about trainings for submitting electronic versions of the portfolios and about a grant that they can use to purchase items like digital cameras or scanners. One of the applications mentioned can increase the mileage they would get out of a digital camera.
It is called
scanR and
"turns paper into useful digital information." You can take pictures of whiteboards, documents, business cards. Email the pictures to scanR, use a camera phone to take pictures and phone them in, or use a widget on your Google homepage. They will email a clean PDF file to you. Here's an example of a converted image.
This one is definitely worth playing with and it has that special 4-letter word associated with it - FREE!
2 comments:
Hi, Jane!
Great resource. I checked it out at the website and downloaded the sample document PDFs, curious to see if they were now readable. Using the built-in text-to-speech in Adobe 7.0 didn't do anything. But I was able to use PDF Aloud to read the documents although text wasn't highlighted as it was read.
Is your experience any different?
Karen
Actually, I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. I am planning to bring my digital camera to work to test it soon. Will keep you posted!
Jane
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