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It's 2024. Why my freaking document scanner app still doesn't have this built-in?
by m000 2y ago
It's 2024. Why my freaking document scanner app still doesn't have this built-in?
- sn0wleppard 2y agoI swear Google Drive used to do this properly but has gotten considerably worse over the past few years
- m000 2y agoI remember being fairly happy with Google Drive app, but I don't recall details of the old functionality either. Today, it is limited to using a quadrilateral envelope to frame the page, which is inadequate for anything other than flat single pages. Its shadows removal filter is pretty good though.
- ssivark 2y agoProduct management felt it was not worth the tech risk (seems too complicated & mathy), and they would get better user metrics by instead building a more sophisticated model for timing notifications by trawling user’s social media activity. The decision makers decided to be rigorously data driven, in their effort to reduce churn.
- Animats 2y agoThis is very nice. Having a low-dimension page warping model to optimize seems to be what makes this work. This is a good YC-sized problem - weeks to market, a few hundred thousand dollars to launch. Apple has a phone app for this which requires too much manual adjustment, and Microsoft has Office Lens / Microsoft Lens, which has comments such as "The edges just eventually go crazy and look horrendous". So there's a market for one that Just Works. Exit by selling to the usual suspects.
- coderatlarge 2y agoI’ve scanned probably thousands of pages with ms lens over the years and it works quite reliably in my experience, at least on iPhone.
- CamperBob2 2y agoSwiftScan does pretty well in my experience.
- solardev 2y agoWe use GeniusScan at school and it does that: https://blog.thegrizzlylabs.com/2024/03/genius-scan-7.16.html#:~:text=We%27re%20also%20excited%20to,toggling%20the%20curvature%20correction%20option https://blog.thegrizzlylabs.com/2024/03/genius-scan-7.16.htm....
- undershirt 2y agovflat is good for this
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