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New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

#61

Here's a before and after test, looks like it needs some tuning for images that are not as low contrast http://sprng.me/154k6 p.s. that's a springpad link, awesome to just share those stuff from your phone

Thank you for the example. Looks like something could be tweaked to do better on that kind of picture. Would you be willing to let me use that as an example for trying to improve the algorithm? Thanks again for trying the service.

by all means, use it

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

#62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the example. Looks like something could be tweaked to do better on that kind of picture. Would you be willing to let me use that as an example for trying to improve the algorithm? Thanks again for trying the service.

by all means, use it

Thanks, and I hate to be a bother, but would you mind sending me an email as such? kyle@snapclean.com Thanks!

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

#64

Do you have any thoughts on a future revenue model? Maybe build out some kind of add-on "pro" features?

Just thought I'd mention that personally I wouldn't mind an ad being placed in the return mail. Though I'm sure the privacy advocates would be against it, using OCR to determine keywords and targeting the ads would be beneficial for you as well as the consumer.

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

#65
post #52

Tried it out. We actually have these funky glass "whiteboards" and it still came out pretty well. A slightly higher resolution output would be nice. Handwriting is hard to read without zooming in a couple of times. Other than that, I agree with some of the suggestions below. Cleaning up the display is probably 90% of what I want, so this is great. One note- I entered some text in the subject line; it would be nice if…

Glad to know it worked on glass whiteboards - would you be willing to share a pic? I like the idea of preserving the subject line - make it easier to organize the photos when they come back (my camera doesn't let me give them meaningful names). Great idea! Thanks for trying it out.

http://www.pixelcop.org/~chetan/pics/snapclean/wb1.jpg (resized orig)

http://www.pixelcop.org/~chetan/pics/snapclean/wb2.jpg (snapclean)

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

#66

Are you planning on making a simple API or is email to be considered as the API?

I hadn't considered an API - what do you have in mind? An HTTP post & response? What would you use it for? I just hadn't thought of this since the graphics libraries and routines are readily available. An API seems to cut out any possible ad opportunities - is an api something you'd be willing to pay to use? Thanks for the idea.

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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post #64

Do you have any thoughts on a future revenue model? Maybe build out some kind of add-on "pro" features?

Just thought I'd mention that personally I wouldn't mind an ad being placed in the return mail. Though I'm sure the privacy advocates would be against it, using OCR to determine keywords and targeting the ads would be beneficial for you as well as the consumer.

Thanks, I appreciate hearing that. I had thought of putting an ad in the email, or even adding one to the bottom of the image itself - though I felt like that would be too intrusive and decided against it (adding to the image itself). Thanks for the feedback.

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just thought I'd mention that personally I wouldn't mind an ad being placed in the return mail. Though I'm sure the privacy advocates would be against it, using OCR to determine keywords and targeting the ads would be beneficial for you as well as the consumer.

Thanks, I appreciate hearing that. I had thought of putting an ad in the email, or even adding one to the bottom of the image itself - though I felt like that would be too intrusive and decided against it (adding to the image itself). Thanks for the feedback.

Unless you could find a solid impression based advertising provider or are willing to spend the time finding advertisers I wouldn't add anything to the image itself except (maybe) the URL to your homepage. For the email bit you'd still have to be careful with the TOS that most pay-per-click ad agencies have regarding email.

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

#70

Are you planning on making a simple API or is email to be considered as the API?

I hadn't considered an API - what do you have in mind? An HTTP post & response? What would you use it for? I just hadn't thought of this since the graphics libraries and routines are readily available. An API seems to cut out any possible ad opportunities - is an api something you'd be willing to pay to use? Thanks for the idea.

An HTTP post & response could be an option. It would just open the possibility for other services to integrate with yours, there making it more flexible and open to a larger audience. A freemium approach could then be a possibility (where one starts paying after a certain amount of daily API usage)
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