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heydonovan | 4 years ago

I hate PDF's with a passion. Not once have I ever wanted to use one. All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time. I'm giving this a shot next time I need one, the whole scanner thing needs to go. Are we stuck in the 90's?

Just bought another rental and it was an ordeal trying to find a scanner. Tried the college near me, was denied as you have to be a student. The library is closed down apparently. FedEx didn't have one. The one at the Office Depot was broken. I ended up driving 30 miles to a friends house to use theirs, which required driver upgrades since nobody had used it in a year. I don't understand the point of jumping through all these hoops.

I feel the same with credit card signatures, completely useless and has never once helped me with identity theft or fraudulent transactions. Now I just draw a horizontal line or smiley face.

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detritus|4 years ago

If you have a basic handle on a GUI Bitmap editor such as Photoshop or GIMP, and you have a hi-resolution phone, you can just take a photo of the sheet as parallel as you can manage and then create a document that is the same dimensions and then use the warp tool to fit the likely skewed photograph to the exact digital document.

post-it|4 years ago

There's lots of apps that do it for you too. Scannable is one.

maupin|4 years ago

> All the pinching and zooming, such a waste of time.

Sounds like what you really hate are mobile device displays.

lucb1e|4 years ago

When is the last time you had to pinch and zoom on a website? Text can reflow perfectly well, if you give the renderer the necessary information. With PDF, similar to PNG, you're specifically telling the renderer to put this pixel exactly over there and nowhere else, so it cannot nicely make it all be readable comfortably.

If mobile devices required zooming and panning to read anything, they'd not be popular at all, so they're apparently not where the problem lies.

ihattendorf|4 years ago

Do you hate PDF's or do you hate scanned documents? How else should we send text or image documents in a portable format, MS Word? Google Docs?

BlueTemplar|4 years ago

(m)HTML (aka .eml). And it even supports multimedia !

ahoka|4 years ago

Just take a photo next time, you can use Office Lens or Apple Notes.

scintill76|4 years ago

Also Files on iOS has a document scanner hidden in the … menu.

koliber|4 years ago

Smart phone scanning apps are incredible. I’ve ditched a flatbed years ago and solely rely on my iPhone. It works like magic. The quality is good-to-great, and it fits well with my workflow. Worth the ten bucks or so investment.

marcellus23|4 years ago

Don't even need to spend $10 — the scanning is built into iOS, you can get to it from the Files or the Notes app, or even from your Mac (right-click somewhere and "Import from iPhone or iPad").

wildrhythms|4 years ago

I was told by a convenience store clerk that it's best to simply write "SEE ID" in place of a credit card signature. In the event the card is stolen, or there is some doubt as to its user, perhaps the criminal would be stupid enough to actually show their ID.

space_ghost|4 years ago

Dropbox's mobile app includes a document scanning feature that seems to work well.