Inspiration
I have always wanted a copy of my notes on my mobile device. I thought about how I could be able to do this. Then I thought Markdown would be the best way to parse typed and handwritten notes into a visually pleasing format on a mobile device.
What it does
The iOS application parses text written in Markdown and formats and visualizes it onto a native iOS application. The text can be either typed or handwritten.
How I built it
I used Tesseract's OCR technology to parse text from images, and the iOS app was written in Swift.
Challenges I ran into
Parsing the text from Markdown to a format that I needed was the most difficult part.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am proud of being able to get some of the attributes of Markdown and translating them to UIKit elements.
What I learned
I learned that text parsing is very difficult, and OCR technology is still not up to par.
What's next for Markdown for iOS
Open sourcing the translations made in this app to ultimately format native iOS applications by just writing in Markdown.
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