If you have a Nokia E71 or E66 cell phone or any cell with Symbian S60 third edition,then Nokia
Multiscanner is a software that lets you use your cell phone as a scanner. Nokia Multiscanner uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to identify the letters of the text scanning.

Nokia Multiscanner offers both Business card reader and text reader bundled in a single package and in the near future it will extend its capabilities to be a translator in your pocket.Unveiling Nokias future prospects this text reading application brings more hopes of a device which will act as a All-In-One replacement gadget that sits in your pocket serving you as a personal assistant.

Though it is currently available only in E66 and E71 by default,I managed to get hold of an extracted version that works well on my N95 8GB.But it needs to be signed or you need to hack your device in order to try it.

Download : Nokia MultiScanner[Unsigned] .sisx file (For Mobile Browsing)

Here is an example of Converted texts

Language libraries are stored in the device, language library for an alphabet language, for example English, French, or Greek, requires approximately 600 kilobytes; and for a character-based language, for example Chinese or Japanese, 3 megabytes is required.

It’s all pretty nifty stuff and means that you can make quick notes of text based items and then use the text later on either in an email or SMS without having to either type it out or send an image.

The business card function alone saves time having to manually adding new contacts to your address book, which may make the difference between adding a new person’s details or not.

Link: Nokia MultiScanner

For more info on Multiscanner, head on over to Nokia apps

Bhavya