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Photoshop license costs $348 a year. If 1000 people get together and put $400 each, you'll get $400000. That money could be used to leverage a Gimp to be more Photoshop-users friendly. Then you don't have to keep with the subscription model. You have a great piece of open source software available for everyone to use as long as they want. You can do another round to get more features added. This solves the issue that…
This looks like such a cool idea, but already you see that the problems presented seem to be seriously underestimating how complicated what they're trying to do is. For example, detecting specific text in an image? 10 minutes in OpenCV. Detecting any text at all in any format in an image? I don't even know where to start. Maybe 10 minutes in OpenCV if they constrain the kind of text, otherwise ML? It feels like an un…
In terms of ML you could probably load a pre-trained image classification convolutional model and fine-tune it a bit and get quite a reliable if not superbly exact "here is some text" classifier without too much effort. Perhaps not 10 minutes, but maybe a weekend to allow for training.
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04018 "Multi-Oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional Networks"
> Identify location of text in an image ...for... $75 This is what my doctor charges for a flu vaccination. I guess I've chosen the wrong profession.
So... they want to chop out watermarks?
Photoshop license costs $348 a year. If 1000 people get together and put $400 each, you'll get $400000. That money could be used to leverage a Gimp to be more Photoshop-users friendly. Then you don't have to keep with the subscription model. You have a great piece of open source software available for everyone to use as long as they want. You can do another round to get more features added. This solves the issue that…
But it's hard to convince people to hand over their money. SaaS works because the profits are reinvested into marketing.
Photoshop license costs $348 a year. If 1000 people get together and put $400 each, you'll get $400000. That money could be used to leverage a Gimp to be more Photoshop-users friendly. Then you don't have to keep with the subscription model. You have a great piece of open source software available for everyone to use as long as they want. You can do another round to get more features added. This solves the issue that…
Photoshop has a lot of engineering/product work going into making it better. Unless the price of it were totally absurd, it's always going to be a worthwhile expense if it's the most efficient piece of software to use, because software is typically much cheaper than labor. "Good enough" isn't the goal in this regard. In this case, Photoshop will continue to dominate (unless they get lazy/give up) because they have re…
The issue of having to pay to get access to your tool it's a big issue.
For big companies having to pay for 100 workstations yearly the monetary incentive is big.
Once many people is aware that in the long term it's a better deal to put their money into software libre projects, maybe different companies could compite to get your money.
This looks like such a cool idea, but already you see that the problems presented seem to be seriously underestimating how complicated what they're trying to do is. For example, detecting specific text in an image? 10 minutes in OpenCV. Detecting any text at all in any format in an image? I don't even know where to start. Maybe 10 minutes in OpenCV if they constrain the kind of text, otherwise ML? It feels like an un…
There is already an API available to do this today. The Microsoft Cognitive Services computer vision API detects words, phrases, and lines and included bounding box information indicating where the text was found. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service... .
For example, it can't tell there's text in this clear image of a VIN:
http://1eask1khnn22hm3njx2dmz1a.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
But I bet if you took a closer picture (like you would if you were using an AR app) it'd work
Photoshop license costs $348 a year. If 1000 people get together and put $400 each, you'll get $400000. That money could be used to leverage a Gimp to be more Photoshop-users friendly. Then you don't have to keep with the subscription model. You have a great piece of open source software available for everyone to use as long as they want. You can do another round to get more features added. This solves the issue that…
Kickstarter?
> Industry-specific deep learning interviews and walkthroughs > 1 customer paying $5/mo Sounds about right.
It's sad that even the highest bidding project is $500/mo.
