Thanks for the kind words. Indeed, I put a lot into the "first visit experience", and hopefully it's a reasonable first stab for this Tufte-reading programmer.

Thanks for the kind words. Indeed, I put a lot into the "first visit experience", and hopefully it's a reasonable first stab for this Tufte-reading programmer. :-) As for competition: (a) Nonconsumption (as the 37signals guys like to say). There's millions of people that have a directory of document type NNN that want to get some aspect of those documents into another form, but either (a) they don't have resources to get it done, or (b) the job/process isn't large enough for them to bother their IT folks with. If we can nail the UI, we should be able to capture some large chunk of this. (b) The relative waste of resources spent on non-core work related to extracting data from documents in medium-sized, usually internal software projects. These folks don't like spending the up-front money to license software to get the job done, and they don't like having to understand the minutiae of the processing involved; i.e. "I want text/images/form data/three number from the second page of each of these 10K documents, and I don't want to blow a week on figuring that out." (c) Manual entry. Organizations with very large document processing workflows currently spend millions shipping documents to "overseas" keying shops (almost all in south Asia). We have some things in the pipeline that might obsolete that practice, driving down error rates along with cost. Solutions for these customers would likely require a private installation or similar, so that's down the road a bit.