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I would consider reaching out to commercial scanner companies and see if they have any interest in either: integrating your service into their software or negot
by rockostrich 3y ago
I would consider reaching out to commercial scanner companies and see if they have any interest in either: integrating your service into their software or negotiating some kind of referral program for folks that buy their scanners. Same goes for advertising on forums for folks that are using DIY solutions to do a lot of scanning. You might also consider reaching out to businesses that you know do a lot of scanning of texts like this like libraries and law firms.
Just spit balling here but if the product works as well as the demo then it should be easy to start finding a few "Library Access" level customers and start to build some revenue.
- growt 3y agoJust judging from the example, fixpdfs seems targeted at unprofessional scans with a smartphone camera. A stand alone scanner should produce good enough results. But maybe your advice still works if you replace scanner companies with something else?
- jcuenod 3y agoHalf answering the sibling here as well. I built this as a PhD student in the humanities (where we use a lot of undigitized texts). I constantly ended up cleaning up PDFs and OCRing them for my own use, and this was an excessive optimization of that process. The market that is obvious from that starting point is other PhD students in the humanities—sciences tend to read more recent content (so more likely to be digitized), and in the sciences it's more likely to be digitized anyway. I have a few contacts in libraries, and some interest, but I figure testing out the product on more peers is better to begin with. This discussion is making me think I should pursue library level usage, though.