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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get a location using a camera looking at ... on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:59PM (#31995209)
I saw this tech at a conference a while back. There is a white paper on the site.

https://www.polarissensor.com/skypass/

Re:Ask HN: A non-OCR service to create digital copy of hand written no... on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:44AM (#30301367)
Mechanical Turk and fivver could certainly get the job done. I would be willing to pay for a service where all of the coordination was abstracted away and I could input: picture output: typed document.

Remarkable2 looks very cool but the thing I am trying to solve for is the ability to search and have formatted text, which I am not sure if that solves.

Ask HN: A non-OCR service to create digital copy of hand written notes?

Posted by softical on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:01AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am looking for a service where I can send (text ideally) a picture of a page out of my physical notebook and a human will organize and type them for me in Notion, Google Doc, etc. When I search for something like this all I can find is OCR tech or digital note taking solutions. I don't want to use upwork etc. because of the variability in the load. One week I may need 10 pages next I may only...

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