Re:Ask HN : mobile app that would be great for programmers
by willvarfar on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:41AM
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The mobile app I want to see is one that:
using the camera, from a photo, does OCR and searches for same / similar code on-line
OCR is a hard problem, but its fairly constrained when we use fixed-width fonts in IDEs etc generally; this is finally within the realms of solvable on modern smartphones
using the camera, from a photo, does OCR and searches for same / similar code on-line
OCR is a hard problem, but its fairly constrained when we use fixed-width fonts in IDEs etc generally; this is finally within the realms of solvable on modern smartphones