Since it's targeted specifically to blackboard drawings/diagrams, maybe it would be possible to vectorize the output
New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email
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Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email
#32Really great idea, but most advanced whiteboard cleanup software includes perspective correction and things like that.. As far as I can tell this just is a color-scale modifier and sharpener. However the idea behind the service, whiteboard cleanup via email, is pretty sound. I would love to have this with features that allow me to send the pic along with list of 'end product' recipients. Need some https secured site…
Suggestion: send email/tweet to @names in the board w/ OCR...
Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email
#33Really great idea, but most advanced whiteboard cleanup software includes perspective correction and things like that.. As far as I can tell this just is a color-scale modifier and sharpener. However the idea behind the service, whiteboard cleanup via email, is pretty sound. I would love to have this with features that allow me to send the pic along with list of 'end product' recipients. Need some https secured site…
Suggestion: send email/tweet to @names in the board w/ OCR...
Oh, I like that idea...need to look into OCR.
Thanks!
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#34Do you have any thoughts on a future revenue model? Maybe build out some kind of add-on "pro" features?
Aside from selling corporate whiteboard-secrets? (I kid, I kid...)
Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email
#35Do you have any thoughts on a future revenue model? Maybe build out some kind of add-on "pro" features?
Aside from selling corporate whiteboard-secrets? (I kid, I kid...)
Will definitely _not_ be doing that, but I should add reassurance to the faq/terms/privacy so people know what's what.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll have to add that to the terms and the faq - I'm using google apps to handle the email. The app issues a delete immediately after processing. Right now I'm clearing out the trash folder (edit: sorry the sent folder) in the google account about every day or so. What kind of assurances would you like? If I implement accounts, would you be comfortable with storage? Would you want to be able to choose on a per-pictur…
Personally, I'd prefer an option to have it delete immediately after it's been processed, even if that's not the default. Lots of idea's get thrown up on whiteboards where I work, but the boss man is a little paranoid. In order to become a regular user I would need to know that nothing I email over is being kept. I understand the insecurities of email in general, but there's a difference between available for the dur…
I once worked in the information security group at a large insurance company, and they prohibited their employees from using, e.g., AltaVista Babelfish, lest they mistakenly release confidential information via the translation tool. Instead, they wanted employees to use a local desktop-based translation tool.
For all of the security measures that can be taken with sending data to web applications, "never sending it at all" is very secure indeed, and in some arenas, the inconvenience may be worth it.
Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I'd prefer an option to have it delete immediately after it's been processed, even if that's not the default. Lots of idea's get thrown up on whiteboards where I work, but the boss man is a little paranoid. In order to become a regular user I would need to know that nothing I email over is being kept. I understand the insecurities of email in general, but there's a difference between available for the dur…
I once worked in the information security group at a large insurance company, and they prohibited their employees from using, e.g., AltaVista Babelfish, lest they mistakenly release confidential information via the translation tool. Instead, they wanted employees to use a local desktop-based translation tool. For all of the security measures that can be taken with sending data to web applications, "never sending it a…
Just curious - do you know if they'd buy a desktop version of something like this? If they did previously? Thanks for sharing about these kinds of users.
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#38A friendly request: if anyone is willing to share their before / after I'd love to see them (including any suggestions / requests you have for tweaking), and I'd like to put them up as a gallery, with your permission of course.
Thanks for all of this great feedback!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I once worked in the information security group at a large insurance company, and they prohibited their employees from using, e.g., AltaVista Babelfish, lest they mistakenly release confidential information via the translation tool. Instead, they wanted employees to use a local desktop-based translation tool. For all of the security measures that can be taken with sending data to web applications, "never sending it a…
Just curious - do you know if they'd buy a desktop version of something like this? If they did previously? Thanks for sharing about these kinds of users.
I no longer work with them, so I can only surmise. I never saw anyone using a tool like this, but it's a big company with many offices, and individual groups may well have bought their own local tools that weren't provided at the enterprise level. Would they buy a desktop version? If employees found it useful, I don't see why not.
They almost certainly would not use the web version, unless they could run it 100% internally on their intranet.
Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email
#40It fails miserably on my chalkboard photo test (it doesn't claim to support chalkboard, but it seems like it should - it probably doesn't take much to determine the background is all dark and run the appropriate scripts)
Your 4 step instructions have doodle@, but the actual mailto: is for wb@. It's a minor thing, but you should be consistent.
Cool idea. I think you could run pretty far with a posterous style lazy signup and more options (like the dropbox idea, some storage, etc.) Maybe support group emails, so dev@ when sent from my email address returns a response to a certain 5 people.