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Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by dyarosla »

I think that although handwriting won't be going away for some time, I've come to find that I'm using digital mediums for note-taking more often and it's becoming more popular (see Apple Pencil, Surface Pro Pen). If this service were coupled to an app that supported writing with a digital pen, it would be more appealing to many; it would mitigate the need to snap a photo, mitigate the need to have paper, and still allow for someone who wants to jot out their ideas by hand to have a digital text copy in the end. Any ideas for going down this route?

I mean, taking photos and rendering paper notes to digital has definitely been done multiple times already. This other approach would become a must-buy app for anyone who uses their ipad pro or surface pro for notes.

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by mlaskin »

moonforeshot wrote: post #16

do you plan to provide an API?

Thank you for the comment!

We don't have a developer facing API at the moment but it's in the roadmap. Once our algorithm is accurate enough that it "just works" in an enterprise setting, we may open up an API so developers can build applications for their businesses.

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by rokhayakebe »

etiam wrote: post #22

Nice! Maybe I won't need to implement this myself then. Now if only someone would release designs for an affordable, reliable, non-destructive robot to do the physical data collection... My backlog of notes is way to big to stand around snapping cell phone photos at all of it manually.

Or a service that sends you a box where you could use your records, send it to them to digitalize.

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by bradfordarner »

Great MVP pitch!

After signing up for the Beta, it hit me. Every single bit of this could have been staged without having done any coding at all!! Brilliant!!

I'm not sure if that is actually the case, but theoretically it is totally possible. This is a great example of the classic MVP pitch: validate interest before building.

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by sttop »

Love the idea and really wish you already supported other languages!

By the way, you have a problem with your demo video: around the 2:10 mark of the video you can see that the first phrase of the .docx file has a lot more content than the written note... While the note contains: 'The plan is simple', the document contains: 'The plan is simple and brilliant. Here are the steps'.

I'm not questioning your tech, but if your service isn't really running on the demo, maybe you could make this explicit somewhere in the video?

Re: Scribble – Convert handwriting into digital text

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Post by muglug »

bradfordarner wrote: post #38

Great MVP pitch! After signing up for the Beta, it hit me. Every single bit of this could have been staged without having done any coding at all!! Brilliant!! I'm not sure if that is actually the case, but theoretically it is totally possible. This is a great example of the classic MVP pitch: validate interest before building.

Well, at least part of it was staged. The handwriting on the left differs from the Google Doc:

- Handwriting: "The plan is simple:"

- Google Doc: "The plan is simple and brilliant. Here are the steps:"

https://youtu.be/6bhoj1wr30Y?t=2m13s

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