090309 rgam presentatie evernote and tarpipe final

First: take picture!

Project start: 1 februari 2009

Promise:Application of Evernote and Tarpipe(Dis)advantages in everyday usageSmall comparison with similar app’s (if any)Possibilities for extension of functionalityTry out 5 “extended” applications in real life, if possible.

Project end: today

Accomplished:Application of Evernote and Tarpipe(Dis)advantages in everyday usageSmall comparison with similar app’s (if any)Possibilities for extension of functionalityTry out 5 “extended” applications in real life, if possible.

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Application of Evernote

Standard functionality “Extended” applications• Tasks and to do list - Shopping list• Notes and research - Barcode scanning at parties• Web pages - Book/CD/DVD inventory• Whiteboards - Knowledge repository• Business cards - Translation service• Scribbles• Snapshots

Application of Evernote• Every member has used Evernote and Tarpipe• Some still use it

General (dis) advantages of Evernote

Advantages Disadvantages• Tasks and to do list - OCR quality• Notes and research - Free account is limited• Web pages - Only in English• Whiteboards - Knowledge repository• Business cards - Translation service• Scribbles - Bugs• Snapshots - Privacy• Extended applications - Continuity

- Vendor lock in- Continuity

Conclusion:

Makes life easier but do not use as critical application.

Comparison with similar app’sAspect Google Notebook Evernote Evernote premium MS Onenote

Price Free Free $5 per month $ 75

OCR No Yes, handwr. Yes, handwr. Yes, no handwr.

UL/DL No limit 40 mb/pm 500 mb/pm Not applicable

Online access Yes Yes Yes No

OS Webbased XP, Vista, Linux, Mac, iPhone

XP, Vista, Linux, Mac, iPhone

XP, Vista

Picture notes No Yes Yes Yes

File types Text Audio, ink, PDF All files All files

On screen editing notes Very limited Very limited Very limited Yes, excellent

Advertisements No Yes No No

Continuity Project of google Only Evernote Only Evernote Part of MS

Development Stopped OK OK OK

Extended applications explored:• Shopping list-application• Barcode scanning @ parties• Book/cd/dvd inventory• Knowledge repository• Translation service DEVELOPED

Important advantages of applications:• Ease of use• Ubiquitous• Back up feature• Save of effort

Important disadvantages of applications:• No added value (more effort than traditional method)• Technical requirements• OCR quality• Data transportation costs• Upload limit

Holiday pictures

Let’s take a walk

But than…

Oh no!I’m lost!

What does it say?

Just a minute!

Trrr

Trrr

Everything ends well.What did just happen

there?

PictureThe mailDecoder 

automatically mails the picture to Evernote

Evernote uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to extract the text from the picture and puts the text in 

the TextFormatter

Information DeskBicycle ParkingOther Buildings

The text goes to the Mailer, which sends the text to the webserver for 

processing

The webserver uses a translation tool to translate the text

The translation is returned by SMS to the original “from”

addressInformatie BalieFietsenstallingAndere Gebouwen

Enjoy the rest of your holliday!

Workflow

Findings:

Application is very promising; no programs known with same functionality and ease of use

But..

- Tarpipe is quite buggy

- OCR quality Evernote

- 2 languages support

-Technical requirements

- Data transport costs

- Partly handwritten thus combination of mash-up and own code

Conclusion: promising but dependent on buggy third party app’s

Added value of the research:

The new combination of three applications makes an unique combination: an ubiquitous online translation service.

The explorative research around this mash-up clarified aspects which should be improved in order to create an application whichcould be fully (commercially) utilized.

Conclusion:

- Makes life easier but for now, do not use as critical application.

- Fun group project