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"Scribd sent us an announcement yesterday that it insisted is not an April Fool's joke.  The YouTube for documents, as it's been lovingly dubbed, is now letting you send in your physical paper documents so that Scribd can scan them and upload them to your account.  \nTitled the \"Convert Your Paper to iPaper,\" this latest aspect of Scribd's service is not only a Google-sized project in terms of its aspirations to \"unlock the world's information,\" but it's completely free for users, and even non-users. Most services that convert physical content into digital content will charge you for it.  Even those that merely scan images will still charge you for it (and understandably so).  \n\nBut Scribd is looking to be really aggressive in its continued domination of its space, and it's opening up its service in order to accommodate those documents that were created prior to the days of the word processor.  Even those documents that have been printed but since deleted or lost can now have new life as a re-digitized, shareable piece of content.  \nFolks without scanners no longer have an excuse.  Scribd wants every piece of information to be saved and accessible in iPaper format.  Plus, it's the green thing to do (in the long run).  It's great that Scribd is offering an option to do all the heavy lifting for the rest of the world.  No word on what the turnaround time is for getting your documents digitized, but click here for more information."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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