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Things You Can Do Once You Realize The Camera Is Connected To The Network
from the how-well-does-it-work? dept
The idea of using the camera on your cameraphone as something of a barcode scanner that helps bridge the digital and analog worlds is nothing new. However, alarm:clock points us to a new startup that is trying to turn cameraphones into actual scanners. The idea is that you snap a photo with your cameraphone and send it to them, and the company ships you back a nicely formatted PDF. They describe a variety of ways this might be useful including as a way to easily email a signed document (snap a photo, then send the resulting PDF) or to save the whiteboard notes from a meeting. It sounds like an interesting idea (and we've heard of a few others doing something similar), and the sample images look impressive (especially the whiteboard one), but it raises a few big questions. What's wrong with the original photo? Can't you do the same with the original photo the cameraphone takes? From the examples, it looks like this system is trying to better format the images before creating the PDF, but you would think it would still be limited by the quality of the photo. I just tried to test out the system myself, but it's been 30 minutes and no sign of the corresponding PDFs. I may have done something wrong (quite likely) or maybe the system takes time. Either way, it's good to see companies doing more experiments that recognize that the real value in the cameraphone was never that it was a camera, but that the camera was connected to the network.
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Manual Editing
Not something I'm likely to ever use.
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It's like a post-mark date
If you just need the image, use the image. If you need proof of when (and where?) you took the picture, I could see where this service could be useful.
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Re: Manual Editing
...Ah crap, now I have to kill all of you.
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Re: Manual Editing
Thanks for that completely unnecessary and disturbing mental image….......
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