What Are The Uses Of Smart Phone Camera?

What is the liveliest feature in a smart phone

? I guess it is camera. Yes, phones camera lets users take pictures and record video anytime, anywhere. It captures moments to be played later. Adding camera to phone was sincerely a unique idea realized more than two decades back. Today nobody wants to buy a phone without camera.

So a phone without camera is incomplete. But, is phones camera restricted only to taking pictures or recording videos? No, it is not. Apart from these uses, the camera in smart phone can do lots of other tasks. With an app, your camera can turn out to be an intelligent tool and do unbelievable tasks.

This article tries to discover the potential uses of camera. Here we go:

OCR

OCR or Optical Character Reader is a marvelous technology. An OCR device is used to convert scanned images into editable texts. For example, you have a book in hardcopy format and you want to digitize it into an editable version. An OCR device can do it quickly. It can scan the book and convert the image into editable file. OCR is a useful technology for converting tons of printed data into digitally editable file formats. You can find a number of OCR devices available in the market, but if you have a smartphone, you can do OCR hare and now. Mobile developers have launched a number of apps that capture the image of hardcopy documents and convert them into editable Word doc or Notepad files.

Document Scanner

The smart phone camera can also be used as doc scanner. Doc scanner apps use the camera of phone to capture the pictures and then convert them into a PDF or other file formats. An expert mobile application development company can add more features to a doc scan app. We cannot deny that a successful doc scanner app can be built.

Bar code scanner / QR Code scanner

Barcode is now a more than a half decade old technology. A barcode is an optical machine-readable presentation of data of an object. It can store all the information related to a product. QR code is similar to barcode but in the form of matrix format. An app through the camera of smartphone can easily read information hidden in barcode or QR code. In recent years, both barcode and QR code have become quite popular with the growing use of smartphones.

Augmented reality apps

Smartphone camera is the basic need of all augmented reality apps. Augmented reality is a technology of putting a system-generated object on the camera generated video/image in the real time. The elements of real-world environment are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. Mobile application development companies are using this technology in creating a variety of interactive apps. Nokia has recently created an augmented reality app that gives dynamic information about users surroundings. Augmented reality technology can also be used in interactive game development.

by: Shubhangi Verma

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