CamScanner - Phone PDF Creator

I think every college student (who has an able phone) should have this app!  It really saved me a lot of money this semester.

Very quickly, it's a FREE app that uses the phone's camera (mine's the Motorola Atrix w/ 5MP back camera) to take a picture of a document, crop, and enhance it much like a regular computer scanner would.  The interface and app itself  is VERY easy to use.

The free version's "limitations" aren't that bad either.  From the app's description, it reads:

 "With advertisements, PDF files created with watermark, limitation of 50 documents, 10 pages per document, and up to 3 scans in batch mode."

Seriously?  Those aren't really limitations, IMHO.  That translates to: tiny advertisements that are almost non-existent (I didn't even notice them while I was using the app unless I was actually looking for them!), the "watermark" being their website link at the bottom of your PDF file, limit of 500 pages at any one time, and who cares about batch mode?

The quality of the scans came out just as if I had photocopied the pages.  The algorithm used is pretty good at "flattening" the pages.

The upload feature is just as any upload feature on an Android device; it allows you to upload to e-mail, DropBox, Twitter, facebook, etc. in a few pokes at the screen.  I find it easiest for myself to just have it uploaded to DropBox for the sole reason that I can access it anywhere on campus with an able device and WiFi (or w/o WiFi if I'd "starred" it on said device).

All in all, it'll take some time out of your day to scan your pages.  But it's well worth it in my opinion, considering I'd saved hundreds on textbooks. 

As a reminder, CA state law allows the copying of textbooks so long as it's for my personal study use and not being sold or distributed for moniesss.  That's why they have photocopy machines in the library for our use.  Also note that the US copyright law allows the copying of small portions of textbooks for certain uses (scholarly, reviews, critique, to name a few), but not the book in its entirety.  I literally will only copy the pages needed for my assignment; usually only the homework questions so that I could do the homework at home rather than sit in the library all day.

P.S.  The full version has no advertisements, watermarks, and unlimited scans and no limitations in batch mode.  However, it's gonna cost you $4.99 (plus another $1.00, some reviews said) for the full version license.