NotetakR

Take notes and transcribe text from images with your android phone's camera.

Inspiration

Having to manually transcribe notes from a PowerPoint presentation or whiteboard can be cumbersome. So we built an app to do it for us!

What it does

Transcribes text from images taken with your android phone's camera and exports to Google Drive, email, and more! If the text recognition didn't work perfectly, NotetakR provides an editor for making corrections.

How we built it

We built Notetakr using Android Studio, Java and Google's Firebase TextRecognition API.

Challenges we ran into

The CameraKit library we use for embedding the camera into our app's layout is experimental and not well documented, making the learning process hard. Inexperience with creating android applications also set us back a few hours.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a completely functional android app that can be used in our everyday lives. Learning about Android application development was also very rewarding!