{"id":1100,"date":"2022-07-20T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalmykov.info\/how-to-take-photos-of-documents-with-a-mobile-phone-or-tablet-camera\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T16:49:11","slug":"how-to-take-photos-of-documents-with-a-mobile-phone-or-tablet-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/how-to-take-photos-of-documents-with-a-mobile-phone-or-tablet-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"How to take photos of documents with a mobile phone or tablet camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>place the document on a flat surface of a contrasting color;<\/li><li>flatten the document as much as possible and make sure that all significant areas are visible and on the same level;<\/li><li>lighting &#8211; ideally should be natural diffused (but not direct sunlight), you can try the flash (if the document is not with a glossy surface), but most likely it is better to turn the flash off;<\/li><li>ensure the cleanliness of the optical system of the camera(s);<\/li><li>camera mode &#8211; macro shooting (it is easier to ensure sharpness), it is better to turn off additional filters and effects;<\/li><li>you can use the option to save photographed images in the cloud storage <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/3145835?hl=en&amp;co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/3145835?hl=en&amp;co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid<\/a><\/li><li>place the camera lens over the center of the document;<\/li><li>hold the phone case over the document in parallel;<\/li><li>make sure that all significant parts of the document are in the frame, there are no interferences and the camera program has correctly oriented (rotated) the image;<\/li><li>check the focus and adjust it (by touching the image of the document on the screen) if autofocus does not work.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>place the document on a flat surface of a contrasting color; flatten the document as much as possible and make sure that all significant areas are visible and on the same level; lighting &#8211; ideally should be natural diffused (but not direct sunlight), you can try the flash (if the document is not with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1311\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalmykov.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}