Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS

Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by theandrewbailey on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:14PM (#11565680)

I've tried to stay the hell away from printers (and their myriad issues) for about a decade, and I feel that my life is better for it. I use the printer at work for the 6 pages per year I need printed.

I understand this situation might (will?) change, since I'm a single young childless guy.

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by grahamburger on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:31PM (#11565805)

Finally changed for us a few months ago after about 8 years of being happily printer-free. One too many trips to FedEx to print 2 pages of something, can't even remember what it was - probably a Groupon for a cash-only store that would only accept it in print. Also I really wanted a sheet-feed scanner so I can electronically archive the stacks of paper piling up around the house. We got an HP OfficeJet Pro 8625 and have been pretty happy with it on Linux, Windows 10 and Mac.

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday April 25, 2016 @05:33PM (#11567549)

> a sheet-feed scanner so I can electronically archive the stacks of paper

That's the most 1995 thing I've read all year.

What with all the smartphone apps which will provide you with PDFs of the casually snapped pics of whatever paper pieces you feel like shooting.

(In the unlikely case the gummint doesn't already have all the info you may need, and you can't just ask for a copy. Which is mostly the case nowadays.)

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by grahamburger on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:49PM (#11568308)

> That's the most 1995 thing I've read all year.

Lol true :) the main reason is when I have a big stack of paper that I want to trash but I'm not sure if any of it will be relevant down the road. It's a pain to go through each page and snap a picture, with a sheet feed scanner I just set it on there and push a button. The most relevant example I can think of is hospital bills - we had a baby last year and my wife was also in the hospital for an unrelated surgery for a few days, and all of the bills come on paper mail. It's nice to trash the paper and still have the record.

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by mmel on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:26PM (#11568204)

What smartphone app will produce an archival quality scan with searchable OCR'd text from a casually snapped photo of a piece of paper?

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by grahamburger on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:53PM (#11568328)

Or better yet, of a stack of paper. If you can find me that I'll gladly pay for it. Well, at least up to the around half the cost of the sheet-feed scanner/printer.

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Re:Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be head... by roywiggins on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:33PM (#11568243)

At college printing was the norm- there are a lot of assorted articles assigned as readings, they are PDFs generated by a student worker and a copy machine, and reading them on a screen borders on physically painful because you can't reflow the text. Just printing out hundreds of pages really was the best option so far as I could tell.

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