Shozu has really improved
by xinit • 1/1/2009 • geek • 5 Comments
Wow… I decided to try installing Shozu again on my smartphone, as I’ve taken a couple photos of odd things with its camera, and wanted to transfer them off. I remembered that Shozu would automatically transfer photos to flickr, and now that I have unlimited data traffic, why not do that live?
Wow, have they ever expanded the service since I last used it. There’s both a twitpic and a twitter; not sure on the differences.
I’ve setup my flickr account for the primary publishing, and setup a handful of CC accounts that it will also publish to for me; my gmail account, facebook and twitpic so far. Maybe I’ll sign up for accounts on each of the supported services just because…
- 23Hq
- 3FotoAlbum
- AOL Xdrive
- BBC News
- blip.tv
- BBC News
- blip.tv
- Bluestring
- Box.Net
- BritGlyph
- Buzznet
- Cellfish
- CNN Exchange
- Dailymotion
- Divshare
- Easyshare
- Flickr
- Freewebs
- Friendster
- FTP
- Google Blogger
- HotSMS
- Hyves
- Ipernity
- Kodak Easyshare Gallery
- LiveJournal
- MetaWebLog
- moblogUK
- Multiply
- Netlog
- Now Public
- Ovi
- Phanfare
- Photobox
- Photobucket
- Photoshop.com
- Picasa Web Albums
- Pikeo
- qipit
- Reuters
- Samsung Fun Club
- Scoopt
- Seesmic
- SmugMug
- Snapfish
- Twitpic
- TypePad
- Uploaded (ITV News)
- Vox
- WebShots
- Windows Live Spaces
- WordPress (.com)
- YouTube
The qipit service sounds interesting; though just changing a camera phone image into a PDF is nothing amazing; it would be really cool if it did OCR on the image and sent THAT as well.
Thanks for the plug! Have you actually tried qipit? It does not just turn a camera phone image into a pdf. Why put up a service to do that? In essence, Qipit scans the camera phone photo of a doc and makes it a clear, clean copy — just as if you had put that page on a tabletop scanner. You get a printable, faxable copy — right from the phone. You couldn’t print or fax a photo of a document. Qipit is the missing link between digital photography of documents (which nobody uses) and office document reproduction: we call it mobile document capture (or copy).
Again, thanks for mentioning qipit, and let us know of your impressions once you’ve tried it!
Benoit
Founder, Qipit
Thanks, Benoit. I was just going through the Shozu liswt of supported apps and their description said little more than make a PDF out of a picture. The cleanup and filtering make sense… though OCR would be really really cool…
I’ll be stopping by and checking it out shortly.
well there is free alternate to almost everything.
Hi,
Thanks for the kind review. Glad to see you like our stuff!
Any problems let me know on john.neal@shozu.com.
Thanks again,
John.
QA Manager, ShoZu
xinit, I agree with you re: OCR. WOuld be great. Unfortunately the domain hasn’t evolved much in the past 20+ years as far as OCRing from a picture of a doc is concerned. We tested exetnsively all suppliers and non was providing a performance that we felt comfortable offering to qipit users. Too much post-processing involved. Qipit is really about ease of use!
That said we found that OCRing an image that has been processed by Qipit gives a better performance (lower number of errors) than OCRing without Qipit. SO users of of-the-shelf OCR software can always do this: run their documents to be OCRed in Qipit first.
Happy 2009!