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Nice! It could be used before feeding a OCR

Wonder how close this is to the techniques apps like Office Lens use. I am always amazed to the extreme angles I can take a photo and the app still makes it end up as perfect pdf.

Check out how Dropbox does it: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254517

Thanks. Exactly what I was searching for.

> https://officelens.uservoice.com/forums/289714-office-lens-u...

It seems Office Lens depends on the online servers and doesn't do anything offline.

I still prefer offline solutions, especially open-source ones.

Sure. This wasn’t an advocacy for any tool. I suppose most tools use similar tricks and was wondering if it was anything like the one presented here.

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