These days business is slow and I only need to scan a document once every few months. In my opinion that is far to infrequent to even think about investing in a scanner. Yesterday, I had to run down to Kinkos just to scan a page for school when I got to thinking, “there has to be a better solution then going to Kinkos”.

While I was searching around fora solution to that very problem I found a nifty program called Snapster, its a program that allows you to convert a picture that you took of a document, business card, or even a whiteboard and turns it into an image that looks like it was scanned on a flatbed scanner.

All that you’ll need to do is make sure that there is nothing else in the frame except the document. At times the program can be a bit sketchy, for instance if you don’t have very good lighting and the document has extreme contrast variation the program might get confused. But all in all the program works like a charm.

The best part is that Snapster comes with a30 day free trial. After the 30 days the program will still be fully functional but there will be a little watermark in the corner of your image. Or you could always pay the $20  to get that removed. Snapster will allow you to save your documents as a jpeg image or as a PDF.