Shop2LiveinFL Wrote:
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> techman01 Wrote:
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> > by the way, for those that are not familiar
> with
> > sarcasm,
> > I was not being serious in my above post.
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>
> Well, DUH! And the Art of Sarcasm is not having
> to explain that you were being sarcastic.


You must not read the internet. Everything has to be
explained. The latest was a picture posted of
Steven Spielberg with a dead dinosaur in the background.
It sparked outrage online for him hunting dinosaurs!

The population as a whole gets dumber by the day!

I use my phone for everything. Even letter size papers. When I use my camera I have to do a lot more resizing. So, phone it is.

gypsymonkey Wrote:
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> actually, nycrocks, take the picture of the page.
> Make sure that you have all of the data you need
> in it (shop ID, date, etc). Go to MSWord and
> insert picture into a blank document. You can
> actually make the blank document legal size if
> needed. Make sure that the picture is inline with
> the text (its a feature setting that you click).
> This means that you can move the picture to where
> you want so that you are highlighting the
> necessary info. Now go to a corner and (WHILE
> HOLDING THE SHIFT KEY) click and hold the right
> mouse and make picture bigger so that the info
> needed is center stage.(by the by you need to let
> the mouse go before the you let the shift key go)
> For example I had a series of shops that had a
> sheet of paper that had a date on it and I had to
> write the shop number on it. I grabbed the
> picture, went into word, blew up the picture and
> saved it as both a jpeg and a pdf. Doing this has
> saved me money, time and hassle of finding a
> Kinkos in small town USA.
>
> Please tell me if I just made sense. It's late
> over here and I am getting punchy...

Great ideas. I know how to enlarge photos in Word. I never thought of doing it for shops. The OP is not using a computer though, just a
Smartphone, so these suggestions won't work for him/her. I had these problems last week on rate sheets for bank shops. I could read it if I enlarged the cell phone photo but the editor couldn't enlarge. I was at home when I was asked to resubmit and was glad I had my wireless scanner. I just got the HP Envy 4500 and it's a nice wireless printer, fax, scanner that prints from mobile devices or computers. It's so nice not to have to stand by the scanner with my laptop's USB port used to make the connection. No longer will I find scanning a PITA (from home, of course).

Take a pic with my phone, then I email it to myself. I do this with all my shops, home and away. It is especially nice after gas station shops (especially on a route) when you do several in a day. I email each batch to me in it's own email immediately after completion. Then when I get home they are already in folders.

A camera is pretty good for receipts, but I find a document scanner helps a lot for organization. It depends on how much paper you handle. If you are doing merchandising, audits, etc. If you have an iPad you can sometimes avoid printing pages in the first page, but some MSCs still mail out paperwork.

There are really good document scanners in the past few years. The bad part is the cost. The good part is the ease and speed. You put a stack of papers, and press the button, and it's done very fast. I'll keep some recent papers but mostly I'm going paperless. They can scan receipts, business cards, and brochures in full color.

Mine isn't portable but my friend swears by hers which is convertible. It is portable but it docks to make the desktop scanner. If you only need the portable, they are cheaper, but it seems best to get one to do both types of jobs.

You want snarky, I can be snarky... just sayin'

Seems I posted this same comment in another thread fairly recent....

Yes, I remember that response from the Thread from Hell. But who are you responding to here?

I use the Tiny Scan app. There is a free version you can try. I think you get 10 scans, then the paid version was $2.99 or something. You take a photo of your receipt, it gives you a grid to crop as needed, save (click the check mark), name--I usually put the store name and date like 6914 or something so I can tell them apart, save and then upload to Dropbox . Takes no time at all and it's all on your computer when you go to do your reports (download Dropbox on your computer too). You can keep the scan in black and white or color. I find the b/w does better for the receipts but keep any business cards in color.

I use PDF Document Scanner on my andriod phone...I take a picture, and crop it, and add it to Dropbox within the app. When I get home, I access Dropbox on my PC to do my reports, and move them to an archive folder for completed assignments.

I use scanner pro by readdle. Easy to crop, save, email and turns things into pdf. There is a free and paid version, depending on what options you want.

I usually just take a picture these days and don't bother cropping and have never had a problem doing that, but I do own a Neat portable scanner than plugs into my travel laptop that I use if I can't get a good picture for some reason. It will produce either jpg or pdf files. It lives in my laptop bag but I can't remember using it since I got the new smartphone with a better camera than my old one a couple months ago. My old smartphone would not auto-focus so I usually had to use either my Canon 12 mp camera or the scanner.

If you really need a scanner, download the HP all in one app.
Go to a Best buy/staples/Officemax/Officedepot and familiarize yourself with the HP wireless all in ones. Maybe you've already done an HP mystery shop and learned all about them.
Turn on the wireless direct feature.
Turn off the password requirement (just to make it easier)
Connect your phone wirelessly
load docments
Scan documents


I use this option when I need to print documents on the road also.