But with the quality of character-recognition software and cell-phone cameras steadily improving, mobile phones are being turned into data-entry devices.

While you might have chosen to receive bank and credit card statements online and shareholder notifications from your broker via email, your paper piles keep getting bigger with other documents—h ...

Two current scanners, the NeatDesk and the Xerox Mobile Scanner, offer simple ways to digitize and store a variety of paper documents.