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Highlight Digitizer

Transfer highlights made with a marker on physical documents to their digital counterparts.

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This project was created on 06/30/2021 and last updated 2 years ago.

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Highlighting paper documents is awesome. It improves reading comprehension
and lets you recall things easier. It is unfortunate that readers of physical
documents get a penalty for using them.
I want to make a system that transfers physical highlights back into the original
digital version. By scanning (taking a picture) of the document, isolating the
highlighted areas and using OCR we can determine what text was highlighted
and highlights the same bit in the digital copy.

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Paul McClay wrote 07/02/2021 at 07:18 • point

I'll bet libraries around the world would love to see an "augmented reality" application to record/display all the highlighting a person would want to do without actually marking any pages.

And you wouldn't be tied to a particular single copy of whatever you're reading & hightlighting, or highlit  when you read it somewhere else n years ago.

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Inne wrote 07/05/2021 at 08:55 • point

Paul, what an excellent suggestion. Also at the perfect time since, because I wanted to enter the Hackaday prize, I was still looking for a hardware aspect to this software project.

Next to the obvious digitizing use case I mainly came up with comparing how students learn differently from each other by analyzing what and where they highlight.

All in all completing this project will be a major challenge (even without the AR which I have no experience with) but it is very nice to have a point on the horizon. Thanks for your contribution.

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Paul McClay wrote 07/08/2021 at 02:40 • point

You're welcome! and welcome to use & extend the idea as you wish, in case that wasn't obvious.

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