Turn your digital camera into a document scanner

I've tried using my digital camera to take pictures of documents, so they could be e-mailed or preserved digitally. The images typically turn out kind of fuzzy, and it's hard to get the angle right.

Makeuseof.com has an entry about a service called snapter. This article gives a user review of the service, which seems to have some good automated functionality, such as taking the curvature out of pages, adjusting for angle of the photo and cleaning up fuzzy text.

Snapter offers a 14-day free trial, then any additional images uploaded will have a watermark and tagline embedded. Buying the service costs $20-49.

This seems like a really cool service, but most people (myself included) will be scared away by the charge for the service. You wouldn't pay much more for a quality flatbed scanner. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before google comes up with something competitive - and free.