Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Week 4 EOC: There's an app for that.


An app, that without any attachment just with the default phone camera, could scan documents papers and turn them into word documents. Right now there are apps that are allow you to take a picture of paper and turn it into a PDF file, so you can’t edit the text. But there are also apps that translate texts in real time with your camera. So there is the technology to make the camera recognize words and letters, but no one has mixed them up. With this new app you could take notes on a piece of paper, maybe your classes, and what not. Then you could just take a picture of it with your smartphone, which would instantly turn them into a word file to be later edited, improved, and stored on your computer. The app at first would probably make mistakes because everyone’s handwriting is different, but as correct those mistakes, the app starts learning your handwriting.

After a little research I found that there’s in fact no app that’s able to do what I’m describing. Yes, there are scanners apps, but I’m looking for something more, not just neat picture of the document, but functional word file. Still, apps like Genius Scan, TurboScan, Scanner Pro, and many others, are helpful. But I’m being more ambitious than that. I’m pretty that what I’m asking for is not that hard, because as I said before, there is an app that’s capable of doing translation in real time. Word Lens is an app that can translate text in English, Italian, French, and Spanish back and forth, by simply pointing your phone’s camera at a sign, or whatever you want to translate, in real time, right in front of your eyes, it’s really amazing. So that app can recognize text, and words just by pointing at them with the camera, so just have to tweak with that technology a little bit, and have app that stores that text to be edited later.

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