I don’t know about you, but, for me it is very hard to nicely center a receipt in the viewfinder of my camera in order to take a picture and post it to QuickBooks. Luckily, there are apps to fix this!
CamScanner is such an app. You take a “scan” of your receipt … then the magic happens! CamScanner will automatically straighten the receipt. Next, it offers you a crop window with its best guess, then you can drag the outline to fine tune the image. Voila! A nice, crisp image of your receipt; ready to attach to your expense transaction.
Most of the apps will do much more:
- Perform optical character recognition (OCR)
- Scan to PDF directly
- Batch scanning
- Annotate your scans with notes and highlights.
Some of the most popular camera scanning apps are:
CamScanner
Google Drive
Genius Scan
Scannable by Evernote
FineScanner
Scanner Pro
Office Lens
ScanBot
DocSmart
If you are like most people and use your phone camera to record almost everything, you really should look into one of the apps. The clarity of the image is very well worth it!
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