Pen and paper publishing to your website? PaperWebsite is on to something. boffosocko.com

@chrisaldrich

Agreed with you that main innovation here is streamlining the Scan -> OCR for Text -> Website Format stages, and we should productise that for IndieWeb. Moleskine have a Digital Pen + Specific Notebook combo which automatically digitises notes. They haven't made the leap to website yet.

Related approaches here on M.b: @ptrck 's amazing typewritten poems he digitises here @cm 's sketchnotes my news(paper) reviews

Given @jean's interest in bringing the ink Pen community specifically to M.b, perhaps it's a workflow @manton might be interested in exploring for M.b. I think all in-app cameras should automatically have a Scan option, but maybe that's more of a waiting for Apple to bring their Notes scanner to all apps thing...

@warner * @chadgmoore

@warner If you hadn't seen it yet, I did get something working: boffosocko.com/2021/11/2...

I've got a Livescribe pen that does digital capture with linked audio which is pretty cool. They've got an OCR option that's pretty functional, but don't make it easy to share to the web (anymore).

Microsoft has a nice photo app called Lens (at least on Android) that does a good job of "scanning" documents and images. Photos of artworks taken at an angle are easily re-framed, croppable, and reshaped to look as if you took it straight on in much better conditions.

We definitely need more of these things for creators.

@warner just saw this. Thank you for the kind words. But like you, @chrisaldrich , I’m still trying to figure out the best methodology for sharing my “analog” work. The biggest issue is figuring out how a picture of words can still be accessible, readable, and experienced positively by people using screen readers and other inclusive tech.

@patrickT fwiw it looks like Apple are well on the way to making visual text digitally readable (they have often pioneered visual accessibility)

@chrisaldrich Stylus Labs looks incredible!

I think M.b community should be on the frontier of getting handwriting on screens

@warner Ooh, really hope this works and becomes widely adopted tech.

@patrickT when Apple do something you can bet it will become highly adopted! There are concerns about privacy of having all writing machine-readable though. Time to dig those padlocked kid diaries out!!