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My favorite us of this technique was at Hack Princeton a while back. Some people made an app that lets you take pictures of blackboards, automatically cropping
by patejam 12y ago
My favorite us of this technique was at Hack Princeton a while back. Some people made an app that lets you take pictures of blackboards, automatically cropping and fixing the perspective of the board for later use.
- pyre 12y agoI don't know if it was based on that, but a co-worker had a point-and-shoot digital camera a few years back (2009~2010) that had a similar feature for taking photos of black-/white-boards
- RyJones 12y agoI had a Canon P&S that did this in 2003 or so. It was nice - whiteboard mode was used after every meeting.
- mmastrac 12y agoThere was also this HN submission: https://gist.github.com/lelandbatey/8677901 https://gist.github.com/lelandbatey/8677901 (comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520216)
- rhplus 12y agoSome other apps that do this: Office Lens: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/officelens-031714.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/officelens... - imports to OneNote and does OCR Post-it: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/post-it-plus/id920127738?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/post-it-plus/id920127738?mt=...