A digital camera is an ideal alternative to a scanner, if you don't want to deal with a scanner each time when you need to convert a document into a text file, especially if you don't do it very often. Camera images can be easily opened in ABBYY FineReader 8.0, ready for processing.

If you are working with books (for example, in a library), you can simply take you digital camera and capture all necessary text and images for further processing on you PC or notebook (even from those books that cannot be scanned at all).

When you are traveling out of the office (for example, on a business trip) and need to digitize some important documents for editing, archiving, creating other documents, a digital camera can be used as a portable scanner.

A digital camera can also be used to capture text outdoors from banners, posters, billboards, walls, timetables and so on.

At last, you will probably find your own way to use a digital camera and its new capabilities. But if you are going to use it like James Bond does, please don't forget about intellectual property rights and copyright laws.

How to Use Digital Camera

For information on how to use a digital camera effectively for the best OCR results, see Tip&Tricks for Shooting Text we prepared for you.