With LetterSnap, take pictures of text and extract the actual text. The app is powered by Google Cloud Vision, which lets it tackle weird fonts, Chinese + Japanese, colored backgrounds, text at an angle, most anything you can throw at it. Also wrote the simplest, fastest workflow I could conceptualise -- one or two taps to get the text, that's it!
@flowsion good idea but not at the moment. It's a faster workflow on device native because as soon as you tap the button, it sends the image and receives the text.
@pixelglow i just played a little with Google Cloud Vision. thats alarmingly impressive. awesome idea to put this in an app. i bet it didnt even take you a lot of time right? little effort, big results. awesome.
@gopietz from start to finish, about 6 months part-time.
Google Cloud Vision and camera integration were pretty straightforward. What took the most time was getting the user workflow fast and smooth e.g. working on user interface overlays, how to show history without getting in the way of taking more snaps.
I actually had a totally different navigation worked out based on the pages of a book with limited history. My designer @thecolourfool quite rightly pushed me in the direction of unlimited history in the form of a list.
@pixelglow@thecolourfool sounds well thought through. i obviously didnt mean to undermine your work. i bet it was still a lot of work without googles API. keep it up and good luck!
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