Last month saw Microsoft's OneNote partner utility, Office Lens, providing a practical way to capture documents using your smartphone camera even if you can't snap them at the perfect angle. Well, competition being a good thing, we now have a similar facility built into the ever popular, all-purpose Evernote, too.
As ever, syncing across platforms is immaculate with Evernote - the free version gives full online sync, but paying for the premium service (the blue shield above) adds extra functions, including full offline access, if needed....
Opt for a new camera-based note and then take aim at a document (here deliberately taken skewed - typically this would happen in a meeting if you couldn't get close enough to a paper or white board to snap it full-on) - this is the camera's view and would otherwise be taken like this. But swipe right to the new 'Document' feature and then tap; the auto-straightening then kicks in, producing this rendered version of the A4 letter.
Multiple document snaps can be included per note - perhaps multiple pages within a particular item; (right) filters are available to boost visibility in cases where contrast isn't ideal....
In my tests, Evernote didn't straighten and re-scale documents as effectively as Office Lens, but then Evernote does a lot more besides (compared to OneNote), in terms of bells and whistles. Moreover, each system is free to download, so you can simply use both - or try both, at least - and end up with the one that suits you best.
OneNote's strengths are the aforementioned Office Lens, plus built-in integration across all Windows Phones and Windows tablets (and Windows 8 computers) out of the box, while Evernote's strengths are in its availability for every platform under the sun and the wide range of ancillary features and content types.