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Re:Fixed, App That Fixes Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked in SF... by comrh on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:21PM (#10378393)
>Using its app, Fixed customers could snap a photo of their parking ticket using their phone’s camera, and then Fixed would check against a variety of common errors before writing a customized letter to the city on the user’s behalf. The app also cleverly tapped into Google Street View to check to see if the city had the proper signage in place in the area a ticket was received.

They should open source that so it can just be a web app, entirely possible it could still be really useful.

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Re:Fixed, App That Fixes Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked in SF... by wingerlang on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:32PM (#10378429)
Surely they must have been checking these errors manually, so open sourcing wouldn't really do anything other than getting the map location - which I think you could find yourself.
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Re:Fixed, App That Fixes Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked in SF... by comrh on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:45PM (#10378457)
Ah I misunderstood, I thought it was OCR.
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