Show HN: An API to extract texts from images and PDF files

Post by trez » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 6:07 AM UTC

trez wrote: post #23

it_learnses wrote: post #18

Any custom requests? Let us *know.

thx, I am gonna fix that

Post by trez » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 7:37 AM UTC

jingo wrote: post #26

zdw wrote: post #20

What's the benefit to using this over `pdftotext` and/or `pdfimages | convert | tesseract`?

The benefit is stamplin.com gets insight on what people are viewing and reading. They get to see what the user sees. They can compile a database and use or sell that information to be used for marketing purposes. Also, it's an "API" (looks more like a url poiting to a CGI program to me, but whatever). API's are "cool" and "fun", while running local programs that you have control over is old and boring and not the fut…