ScanR, scan copy and fax with your cell phone

I had a mini-reunion at lunch today. I got together with my pal Todd Murchison as well as my buddy Dave Mathis and my protégé, Francis Lau. We all worked together in a tanked startup called mercanti systems. Todd is a software jock, Dave does software and hardware (he has an EE) and Francis is a hardware guy that another one of my pals is ruining making him do software. Anyway, Todd is working at a new startup called scanR. What is it with startups and capitalization anyway? Maybe I should work for eDN. So scanR’s thing is that you can take a picture of a whiteboard or a business card with your cell phone, email to scanR and they will do an OCR on any text, send it back a pdf and put it up in their database so you can see it online as well. College kids love it to just take a picture of a whiteboard rather than having to take notes. Now, a whiteboard picture is not going to get OCR’ed since it is too tough to do handwriting, so that just comes back as a cleaned up and trimmed pdf file, but the business card or anything with text does become machine readable. Todd was a real software jock at mercanti so if anyone can get it right it is this outfit. He says they are all pretty hard-core techno freaks and he feels this might work out.

Check it out— it is free right now as they build up a user base and show off their stuff.