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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by WalterBright on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @02:29AM (#15181627)
A while ago I had brief (because I was traveling) access to a stack of old family documents. Scanning them would have taken too long, so I just snapped a photo of each page with my phone. It took a few seconds for each page, and I got through the whole stack.

The results were very good, the pages were clear and sharp, even though I hadn't been able to flatten them out.

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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by greenbush on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @02:44AM (#15181684)
The Google Drive app on Android (not sure about other platforms) has a "Scan" functionality that digitally flattens out the picture of a document and saves as a pdf. It's very handy and quality is very good.
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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by abricot on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:40AM (#15182082)
The Dropbox app on iOS does the same thing.
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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by WalterBright on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:29AM (#15181834)
Thanks for the tip!
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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by saiya-jin on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:47AM (#15181884)
various other apps, ie TinyScanner are doing the same (for those who don't use these google services for whatever reasons, like me)
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