Smile for the Camera
I have been working with a buyer who recently found a condo that had everything she was looking for and she was ready to submit an offer to purchase. So that meant once I had the offer paperwork signed, I needed a way to get everything over to the listing agent as soon as possible. I was on the road, as usually happens on these occasions, and I was off to another appointment soon after. As they say in real estate, time is of the essence, so I wanted to get the offer sent over right away.
I was able to use the free app I had found and downloaded to my Droid phone which meant I could truly use my car as a mobile office. The app that I used is called CamScanner from IntSig. There are a number of different ones, some of which cost a few dollars, but most of those have a demo version that lets you use it a few times for free. Once you snap the picture, the app selects what it sees as the image, and with an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper it nailed it every time. If it doesn’t get it right on the first try you can select the image and re-size it. You can also rotate the image, crop it and enhance it for better quality. In the past I would have had to wait until I was in the office, the home one or the real one, to use my all-in-one scanner and email, or find a UPS Store or Staples, somewhere with a copier and fax machine. Since most of those places charge about a dollar per page, it can add up when you are talking about 5 or more pages in a typical offer.
To use CamScanner, I snapped a picture of each page that I needed to send. My phone has a pretty decent 5 megapixel camera which also has a “text” setting for taking pictures of printed material. I easily consolidated the multiple images into PDF format, attached them to an email and sent them off. All in about 5 minutes and all from my phone.
I just discovered that they have an app that lets you capture an image of a business card and save the information as a contact in your phone’s address book. I’m off to download that and give it a try while you try the CamScanner!
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Beth is a practicing Realtor and Interactive Marketing Manager at Barrett & Company Real Estate in Concord, Massachusetts. She spends her days coaching home buyers and sellers through the intricacies of buying and selling property and training her fellow agents on the importance of and benefits to an online presence, most recently on Google+! Read more of her work on the Barrett Massachusetts real estate blog.
the amazing interweb! you are using it wisely and well... keep up the great work!
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