Comments on: Weekend Reader http://gigaom.com/collaboration/weekend-reader-27/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Philippe J DEWOST http://gigaom.com/collaboration/weekend-reader-27/#comment-65339 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:22:57 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/10/27/weekend-reader-27/#comment-65339 To add to this constructive debate, there might be a way to avoid the e-mail resizing limitation on the iPhone, and it is by using a little iPhone app called SendPics.

What it does is picking any pending image that you shot and adding it to an e-mail without resizing it.

Though it works one image at a time, you can still recombine the result on Qipit.com by using our newly introduced “merge” function.

Hope this helps.

PS: For those who’d like to check the quality of an iPhone made qipit copy, we really recommend trying it by yourself :-)

]]> By: Benoit http://gigaom.com/collaboration/weekend-reader-27/#comment-65338 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:03:25 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/10/27/weekend-reader-27/#comment-65338 P.S.: Andrew, the iPhone works great with Qipit on whiteboard, etc. However:
- it does not have an autofocus lens, so it is not going to improve your scanning of close-up documents
- its email client reduces images to a small size, thus killing the benefits of oits 2 mega pixel camera for uses such as mobile scanning with scanr (or qipit). The alternative is to upload the full resolution images (through iTunes / iPhoto) to a computer and email to — or upload from — the service.

]]> By: Benoit http://gigaom.com/collaboration/weekend-reader-27/#comment-65337 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:59:24 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/10/27/weekend-reader-27/#comment-65337 Andrew,

High resolution, you are right, but also a camera with an autofocus. The issue when shooting a business card is that you need to get very close to the document, much closer than the minimal focus distance of these fixed-focus lenses (typically manufactured with a focus range of 3 ft – infinite).

Hint 1: try to take the picture form further away, you might be suprised by the improvement in the resulting quality

Hint 2: try to use http://www.qipit.com. We have been told by a number of users that our algorithms did a better job making text out on highly blurred images

Hint 3: if resolution is indeed a problem and you don’t have a 2 mega pixel camera (as required by the scanr service), try qipit with a 1 mega pixel camera.

I am very interested in your comments if you do try qipit as an alternative. We strive on constructive feedback!

Benoit (qipit)

]]> By: Andrew Flusche http://gigaom.com/collaboration/weekend-reader-27/#comment-65336 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:56:29 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/10/27/weekend-reader-27/#comment-65336 ScanR is a great concept, but you do need a high resolution camera. My cheap Samsung cell phone doesn’t cut it. I can photograph a document or business card and send it in, but ScanR just can’t make out the text.

Hmmm… another reason to get an iPhone. :)

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