Qipit’s Dewarping Capabilities
July 27th, 2007To demonstrate Qipit’s dewarping capabilities we took a 2 mega pixel picture of the Qipit test page with an exaggerated angle to illustrate how Qipit works with rotated source images that are not perfectly aligned. As you can see Qipit corrects both rotation and perspective induced distortion to render the copy as if the source image was nearly perfectly aligned. Then just for fun, we ran the same source image through another service. We could talk about the results, but we believe the results speak for themselves.
Original Test Image
ScanR Result
Qipit Result
Seeing is believing!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Hi, this is Chris from scanR.
scanR has 3 services: whiteboards, documents and business cards. We’ve found that to achieve the best result, you need to process each type differently. After all, a 6-foot glossy whiteboard is very different from a page of paper.
As the test is a document, you need to use the appropriate service, scanR Documents, by sending the photo to doc@scanR.com.
Here is the PDF result from scanR Documents.
scanR runs a rigorous testing program to benchmark against all technologies and we feel confident in our competitive position against anyone in an unbiased test.
July 27th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Seeing is indeed believing. If you send this document image to scanR’s document service (doc@scanr.com) then it dewaprs and crops quite perfectly. scanR dewarping and cropping is tuned for each image type. The image above wasn’t sent through scanR’s document service but through the whiteboard service… which is tuned differently. Try doc@scanr.com instead!
Thanks.
Andy at scanR
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Our friendly competitors at ScanR posted a response to our recent blog post comparing Qipit and ScanR’s dewarping capabilities on color documents. Qipit process all images (i.e. white boards, documents, refrigerator art, flyers, etc.) using two simple email addresses. One for color (color@qipit.com) and one for black and white (copy@qipit.com). This makes it easier on the user, since they only need to decide if they want their copy in color or black and white. Qipit does all the rest automatically.
We were indeed confused by the ScanR process and the test image was sent to wb@scanr.com in an attempt to make a color copy of a document. Chris’s example clearly shows ScanR’s dewarping process works on black and white, but it is not clear if a color copy of a document can be made with the ScanR service. In our attempt to test and compare both services capabilities at processing color documents in real world conditions, we used the only option which we could find to process a color document.
Thanks for the post!
Best Regards,
Conrad Hametner (from Qipit)
August 16th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
[...] Qipit competes with Soonr, a company offering a more rounded feature set of mobile applications. But in mobile imaging space, Qipit is ahead of the pack with clear advantage in converting images to scan-quality documents including correcting the document orientation and perspective. [...]