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by vineyardmike 1622 days ago
> Currently we are looking into developing an OCR API. Would that be useful for you?

The above question is different from the below question:

> I own this website MyFreeOCR.com... I would like to get feedback

The feedback I have is (1) website is garbage - too many ads. Clearly not targeting devs who might want an API. (2) OCR API seems like a cool product. Focus on that. Privacy of my data if I call API? How is data trained? What language/alphabet/etc? How do I try it out ? What formats?

Bonus feedback, the best dev API sites are easy to see value proposition and easy to find API key + docs. Count clicks required to get API key + find template cURL copy/paste. And count discrete pages. Even if "coming soon" - show me the critical path today so I can find it later. If you want to start with an "upload a pic" site, still do above, but structure the upload tool as a "try out the API without needed to leave browser" where you upload a photo and can tune other params via web form.

PS. Lots of OCR api's exist, so it could be a cool project but what is your goals here? Do you want to startup? Why your tool and not BigCloud?