Picture to web address?

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Android has QR Scanner apps but what would really be nifty is a way to take a picture of a web address and have the app then open the browser to that page.
Take a picture of www.google.ca and have Chrome open it for you.

That​ would be sweet. Does an app that does this even exist?

 

[Arbiter Odie]

I don't know, but it would be cool. Whenever you get a pamphlet handed to you at an event, say maybe the pamphlet is for a charity group or something and it has their web address on it, it would be a lot faster to use the scanner then typing it in.
Pharaoh, I nominate you to write the app, if it doesn't exist

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

I don't know, but it would be cool. Whenever you get a pamphlet handed to you at an event, say maybe the pamphlet is for a charity group or something and it has their web address on it, it would be a lot faster to use the scanner then typing it in.
Pharaoh, I nominate you to write the app, if it doesn't exist

Exactly! Much faster than typing in a long address.

I would write it, but you haven't seen my java game have you....
Let's just say coding isn't my strong point

 

[Blaylock]

The technology is there but I haven't seen an app yet that allows this. One of the coolest apps I've seen in the last year is called Word Lens. Just point your camera at a foreign word and it switches the language real time. Awesome for my wifes genealogy hobby.

If this can be done, so can the one you're suggesting.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

The technology is there but I haven't seen an app yet that allows this. One of the coolest apps I've seen in the last year is called Word Lens. Just point your camera at a foreign word and it switches the language real time. Awesome for my wifes genealogy hobby.

If this can be done, so can the one you're suggesting.

Wow that's a sweet app!
You're right, the technology is definitely there, all that's left is a dev to code it..

 

[habbajabba]

Open Note Scanner is cool. Can do what you want but seems like the conditions need to be ideal.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.todobom.opennotescanner

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Thanks! I will test this app tomorrow!