Instashot

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Instashot is an iOS tool to help you access text from any image instantly.

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Terrific product, congratulations! Any plan to release API allowing a third party app using your text-recognition engine? Like: I send you a photo by API and you send me back in JSON the parsed text. Thanks

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9yr ago

@guidoarata Vincent says here https://www.producthunt.com/post... that they use Google's text detection API, so you could use that.

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9yr ago

Instashot

Maker

@guidoarata, Just as what Ryan suggested, you could try Google's API if you just need the OCR functions.

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9yr ago

@vincent_zhang thanks I know this API, I was just wondering if you plan to release your: as far as I have understood you text recognition is a mixture of different approaches, APIs and algorithms, so I guess it's more qualitative than Google API alone. That's why I was curious

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9yr ago

Instashot

Maker

Hey PHers, allow me to introduce our product - Instashot, an iOS tool to help you access text from any image instantly. We love to snap a photo or screenshot to capture information more than ever. However it’s still quite a hassle when you want to reuse the information within. Instashot is built to make it easier to do this. Instashot could recognize the 99% text from the photo in 5 different languages, eg, English, French, Mandarin, Spanish and German. Secondly, Instashot understands the information within the text, such as phone number, address, date, and hyperlink. So it may help you in the following cases: * Make a call from a photo of the name card. * Navigate to the destination from a screenshot you friend send to you. * Copy and share a quote from the book. * Search the lyrics from a screenshot of Spotify. We are excited to share with you v1.0 of the app. Meanwhile, the team is looking forward to any feedback.

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9yr ago

@vincent_zhang this is actually the coolest thing to ever exist. i used to use online tools where you uploaded an image and it had to be processed. this is going to make life so much easier and i am so hyped to try this out !! :))

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9yr ago

@vincent_zhang What a terrific app I wondered how this was different to TextGrabber but checking it out - thanks for making it free at the moment - I can see he huge benefit of being able to be able to access and click through to links. What I don't understand is the share feature - I tried sharing to email and it only looked to share the photo - not the extracted text which I had to manually add - perhaps you can share the benefit of the share as you have developed it? In the meantime I have shared it to some people in my network and added it to my collections here.

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9yr ago

Instashot

Maker

Thank you @itsmidnightyo, glad to hear this app could help you!

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9yr ago

Instashot

Maker

@krishnade, thanks for your feedback! We expect Instashot to be more than just an OCR app, but to solve more problems, like accessing the information in photos more easily. For the share feature, definitely, we will improve it according to your suggestion. Let us know if you have any other suggestions after you use it.

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9yr ago

Seems fascinating. From what I could make out from the explainer video on your website, I hold the book with one hand and the iPhone with another. From where, then, do I get a spare finger with which to tap a passage in the book?

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9yr ago

Instashot

Maker

Hi @s_ketharaman, that's a concept video. Welcome to try our app to know more. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...

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9yr ago

translation from say simplified chinese text to english would be awesome guys - and less button pushing.. i want to point camera and get english text back.. instantly. your almost there - and this is only the 2nd app I've found that actually works here in China.. almost all others are using google which is blocked here.. but i need it to translate on the go quickly please !

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9yr ago

Instashot

Maker

Thank you @tony_anastasi. What's the first one :p I put the translation feature into our backlog already. Thanks!

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9yr ago

@vincent_zhang microsoft translator - read text in photos, however doesn't let you save just the text :(

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9yr ago

@vincent_zhang but is a one click and its done thing which rocks

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9yr ago

Instashot

Maker

Got it, definitely, we will put it into our competitor list.

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9yr ago

@vincent_zhang I'm a huge fan of Instashot! Are you still working on this? I'm an investor in Lightricks if familiar. Would love to chat

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7yr ago

DoseNYC

It looks like they're using an OCR API such as MSFT's or Google's. I've tried using them in the past, unfortunately these apis are the not useful for a limited set of specific tasks. They rarely worked for more general tasks of the form "take image taken from phone, convert to text" at least not accurately especially from handwritten text

Pros:

Works nicely for digitallog generated text

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Doesn't work for more general purpose tasks like converting handwriting

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9yr ago

Nujible: Get Focused Now!

I was just thinking about how frustrated I was with apps that display text that you can't copy and paste. Very cool tool!

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9yr ago

Instashot

Maker

@sergybro Hi Sergio, I have the same experience! That's the reason we build this app. Would you mind to share more detail of your case? We'd like to do more than just copy and paste.

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9yr ago

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