VueScan Mobile: Use Almost Any Wireless Scanner With Your iOS Device
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I can neither confirm nor deny that Hamrick’s choice of source material influenced my decision to write this post
VueScan Mobile is an iOS app which will let you scan from your wireless scanner direct to your iPhone or iPad, no computer required. The list of supported scanners is huge, and the software works with pretty much every wireless Epson, Canon and HP scanner out there.
Hamrick software’s Vuescan desktop app has been around for years. It has proved a good way to use old scanners with modern computers when they have been abandoned by their manufacturers. And the software offers an embarrassment of advanced features not found in the makers’ own drivers.
Vuescan Mobile is a lot simpler, although it uses the same source code as its older brother. It connects to scanners on the same Wi-Fi network (the details are on the site, along with a list of supported machines) and pulls scanned images across the network straight to your device.
From there, you can mail images, save them to your camera roll or open them as JPGs or PDFs in any other apps that support this. Thus, you could scan a page of text and pictures and send it straight to Evernote to be magically OCR’ed.
I no longer own a scanner, but if I did, I’d grab this $5 app right away. I used the OS X version for years, and the app store reviews say it works flawlessly.
Vuescan Mobile product page [Hamrick]
Vuescan Mobile app page [iTunes]
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