I am quite disapointed that snapster has such limited capabilities. However, just like initial launch of tablet pc, I really believe snapster will come to fruition if enough efforts are put.

Hi, the new version 1.03.04 has already solved this error and has much better support for books. The version reviewed was older (1.03.03). Please make sure to try the latest version.

See new processing of Hugh Sung's music sheets on this page using new version of Snapter (v. 1.03.04)
http://www.atiz.com/test001...

Sorry, I got much worse results than Hugh using 1:03:04 on a book that was all text and pretty much straight and clear. I didn§t expect it to be perfect, but I thought it would be easier to use and more of a real program than just an idea. I'll have to see if I have any photos of flat sheets to test, but I don't know why I'd really need anything special for those when I have Acrobat.

Karla. Just send those images that u had problems with to us at snapter@atiz.com.

I'm sure we can work them out easily. Let us see and tell u why u can't the good result.

Surely, we hope it's not an idea because it is actually state-of-the-art computer vision algorithm that comes from years of Ph.D. research.

I'm unimpressed. I had tried the 03.03 version on a jpg of a marriage certificate. The original picture show a certificate that has been folded at some stage (so does not sit flat in the image) and photographed by someone who was not directly above it. It is on the table, the photographer is obviously by the table. So the certificate is not rectangular and needs edge detection to work. Edge detection didn't work particularly well despite the black background, much as the music sheet example above.

I see the software has been up-issued to 03.04. So I download the new version to try. (I see the trial period doesn't extend from the one day left :-) but worse I still have to confirm "later" 3 separate times before it'll come in.)

Well I try the same example image. I can load it as "book" (since the shape to be detected is fairly book shaped). In this case all the nodes sit on a straight line at the top of the image, and are unmovable ?!? Or I can load as "document" in which case the 4 edges can not be adjusted to be non-straight, which messes up any accurate edge definition.

Oh, and beware of pressing to load it in as something different before changing your mind and going for the "process" button. The software may decided to have a laugh and make the "process" button inactive by the time you want to try it. Which necessitates starting again from scratch.

If you do get to process the image the result appears to be "little more" than a cropped version of the original, Certainly not the flattened version as expected. And one doesn't need additional specialist software to crop a photo,

This software has a long way to go. Personally I'd be embarrassed to release it in this form, since it does nothing to enhance the company name/brand image. It obviously has potential but there is a basic rule about applications, to do with getting them to work first.

Excuse me for not getting involved in sending on the files in question, it's not sufficiently important to me it's corrected, this post is for others' benefit, and I'm sure the problems are not something unique to my test image.

Hi Gaz - thanks so much for your input on this. I haven't gotten around to trying the updated versions, but i hope to sometime in the next few days or so...but from what i'm hearing from several folks, it looks like there still needs to be a lot of work done before this can be a reliable paper-to-digital solution. I love the idea...kind of reminds me of the early stages of PDF annotator. The first version was - to put it bluntly - flat out awful! Page turns took forever, inking was quirky, tons of bugs...the idea was great, but not ready for prime time. About 6 months or so later, i get around to trying PDF Annotator again, and suddenly it was AMAZING - blazing fast page turns, smooth inking, search capabilities...it took a while, but the end product really came out to meet the initial expectations. I just hope Snapter can follow a similar success curve as they continue to develop and fix this product...hopefully it won't take 6+ months...

I've found that it works great for flat pages, but poorly for books. Frankly though I can process loose pages faster on my old scanner with a multi-page feeder and get similar to better results. Snapter is a great idea with a poor implementation.