Nokia Multiscanner Rocks My Face Off
Nokia comes up with some decent applications here and there, but every once in a while, they rock my socks off with something *really* cool. Symbianv3.com found Nokia Multiscanner, which is one of those tools. This free application debuted on the E71 and E66, though it flew totally under the radar, and was not highlighted like it should have been. Multiscanner has two main features – a card scanner and a text scanner.
The card scanner is for business cards (hence the inclusion on the E71/E66). In card mode, you simply snap a picture of the business card and the Multiscanner application reads the person’s information, and inputs it into the various fields of a new contact card for your phone. You can edit the fields before they’re saved, and then with one click, save it to your phonebook. It could not be easier, and it supports even the funkier card layouts. One issue, though, is that Multiscanner basically snaps a picture, and doesn’t give the option of disabling the flash. For glossy business cards, this can prove to be a big problem, though matte cards work great.
The text scanner works similarly, allowing you to snap a photo of any text, and then have it stored on your phone as a text note, in editable format. The feature that I really like about this is that Multiscanner adds a prompt to your phone’s ‘Send’ menu, allowing you to ’send’ any photo to the Multiscanner for translation. This can be really handy if you take a picture of something and want to scan it later.
The application is free, and can be downloaded here.
Thanks for the heads up.
It installs fine, but when I try to start it nothing happens, the app-icon never gets a blue dot and no warning message appears, just nothing. Normally an incompatible app would display some kind of errormsg.../jaclu
I tried taking pictures of some text in a book I'm reading and it did unfortunately not recognize it. Just came out with garbles.
Going to try it more until I know where I shall focus.
All the options were there and application started just fine and even gave out some shutter noise. (I've always got warning tones switched off).
Also worth noting is that I used another version that I found elsewhere.
(Multiscanner_EURO_1.1.8_S60v3.1.sisx)
ScanR offers some of this with some "cheating" but don't offer those great integrations as you mentioned.
Abbyy Business Card Reader works quite well for business cards but that's just it. Doesn't function as a textscanner at all.
It's strange, maybe because E65 is S60 3.0, not 3.1 like E66/E71..
Nokia continues to ignore E65 owners.. :/
Can anyone confirm and, ideally, point us to versions of this app that work on later / earlier S60 releases? I'd really like to have this app (I'm coming from a UIQ 3 device which had a business card scanner, so I kinda miss it!)
I think Nokia have changed some things under the hood in FP2, read that accelerometer applications for the FP1 devices won't work on FP2, so it's definitely something there.
Thanks
when i tried to unpack the .rar file from another site w/ 7zip on my desktop, it said the text file had a lot of spaces in its name (i.e., virus-like) and wouldn't open it.
can somebody confirm this is a legit nokia release (maybe european) that'll really work on a us phone?
when i tried to unpack the .rar file from another site w/ 7zip on my desktop, it said the text file had a lot of spaces in its name (i.e., virus-like) and wouldn't open it.
can somebody confirm this is a legit nokia release (maybe european) that'll really work on a us phone?
Didn't sound very good what you were describing.
However it also can be the case for instance if your browser suddenly decides to view the .sis or .sisx files as text instead of downloading it.
I've experienced it several times myself in both my S60 browser and computer browsers.
(Basically you can say that the mime type is "set wrong", where mime type is the description for what a browser should do with a particular file.)
You can try to download the file again from the link I gave you.
If it still doesn't work I can send you the file I used to make it work on my
N82.
dumb question - can i install a program by just removing the memory card and putting it there? if so, what folder should i use??
i appreciate your help.
dumb question - can i install a program by just removing the memory card and putting it there? if so, what folder should i use??
i appreciate your help.
Unfortunately it's not as simple as that.
You can't just drag a file and then it will install as in a Apple Mac.
You have to click on the file itself as any installation prosess in Windows.
The downloaded files can be put in what ever folder you wish to.
The only thing you have to do is to use the filemanager and browse to the file where you saved it. Then click on it (select open) and you will be prompted on where to install it.
You can install it on e.g. the memory card but despite that there is still some
components that will be installed in the phone memory.
(You could before, in Series60, S60v1 place the installation file into the folder installs and then when you opened the application manager it would install automatically, but that is not the case now)
There is a another way, but that may require a hacked phone.
You must have unpacking tools for .sis and .sisx files and after extracting the
content you must manually move the files according to the structure of the extraction to the corresponding folders.
(Regard the .sis and .sisx files as a .zip or .rar file. It is however very inconvenient besides it will not always work as some settings is not written to files. Seen the .reg files in your phone?)
Keep it simple and install in the normal way.
i'll assume the "regular way" to install includes loading the .sis/.sisx file manually on a card and then just clicking it in file manager - i assume that the installation program in symbian is "smart" enough to put things in the right place.
my only reservation was that after working (and playing) with computers since 1965, i don't like to assume anything (except the 6 murphy's laws):
thank you again.