Scan Thing

Quickest way to capture and save anything around you

2 followers

Quickest way to capture and save anything around you

2 followers

Scan anything: objects, people, pets, text, books, and documents. Scan Thing uses cutting-edge machine learning and computer-vision algorithms. You don't need internet access, an account, or a subscription. There's no data collection, no ads, and no nonsense.

Launch tags:iOS•Productivity•Photography

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Maker

Hello, everyone. I'm an indie iOS developer and I'd like to introduce you to my new app "Scan Thing: Scan Anything". If you're in the market for extracting objects, people, and cats from their backgrounds, scanning text in eight different languages, or digitizing documents by embedding the text in the original scanned image right on your iPhone, you should check it out. Scan Thing offers complete data privacy, everything happens on-device, you can try it out for free, there are no ads, and you won't ever need a subscription. Hope you enjoy it!

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6yr ago

@pierreliebenberg thank you for not making Scan Thing yet another subscription. Good luck with the launch!

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6yr ago

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@craigcpaterson You're very welcome! And thank you so much for the upvote!

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6yr ago

@pierreliebenberg you are welcome, just purchased.

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6yr ago

@pierreliebenberg I have just ran into your project now. Your 2d-segmentation app is incredibly good. I would like to congratulate you on an such an exquisite job. Ka pai!

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6yr ago

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@lyondhur Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.

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6yr ago

CheckPlug

Looks great. 1. Are you using your own algorithm to cut the image's background or using an API like remove.bg 2. Are you saving depth data? 3. Are you building the reverse case, where overtime you learn what things are? 4. Plans about integrations? If I were you I'd build integrations with Figma, Photoshop wherever creation happens. 5. Other than the fun use case, which demo-graphic will actually pay for this as a painkiller for that market? Designers? who exactly needs these clipped images on a regular basis. 6. Are you thinking of any B2B plays where apps just use your camera if they need to grab something in their app as a clipping. Cheers, good luck with the product! Best, Yash

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6yr ago

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@yash Thank you! 1. All the processing happens on-device without the use of any third-party SDKs or services. 2. The app doesn’t currently rely on depth data. However, the next update will add front-camera support, which will combine depth data and a neural network. No plans to persist the depth data, though. One of Scan Thing’s tentpole features is complete data privacy. Nothing leaves the device, no data collection, no accounts, no subscriptions. 3. See number 2. :) 4. I’m definitely thinking about integrations. 5. That’s a really good question. I’ve heard from users in a number of different fields. These include designers, production companies, schools, sales and marketing, and artists. The app also offers what I consider best-in-class PDF scanning, which opens up another diverse user base. I’ve also heard from users with visual challenges that rely on the app to extract text from 'photo documents' (i.e. PDF scans that are really just an image of a document; Scan Thing embeds the images as well as the document’s text in the PDF, all of it mapped to the location of the text in the original document) that they can then hand off to the system’s text-to-speech engine. 6. That’s also something that I’m thinking about. A lightweight SDK is definitely an option. Thanks again for your support! Pierre

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6yr ago

CheckPlug

@pierreliebenberg Appreciate you taking the time to answer this! Good luck mate, following your journey on twitter!

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6yr ago

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@yash No problem!

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6yr ago

Photosweep

Looks great Pierre! Congrats. You should present the area where the scanned things are stored too. May be some cool use cases to turn things into shareable stickers or even make collages. Best of luck with it!

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6yr ago

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@leojbarnett Thank you! That's a great idea. Will definitely be looking into it.

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6yr ago

@pierreliebenberg I can't stop scanning everything and everyone I come in contact with. In all seriousness really well done and elegant clean app. Works really well and the privacy policy and pricing structure are fantastic. Thank you for putting this out.

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6yr ago

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@nullistic You're welcome! And happy scanning!

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6yr ago

RokBlok

Great job! This works flawlessly! I literally bought unlimited scans after 5 test scans. I was surprised to see that the OCR works on handwriting too.

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6yr ago

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@loganknowitall Thanks so much for your support!

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6yr ago

Product Hunt

Reminds me a bit of this year's Golden Kitty AR winner ClipDrop . Love seeing the camera on our phones being used in practical ways like scanning. Nice job and congrats on the launch @pierreliebenberg, excited to see this evolve and what else you build.

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6yr ago

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@gabe__perez Thank you so much!

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6yr ago