HakonAgustsson

Joined 9 years ago

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My startups - https://www.MyTweetAlerts.com - https://www.ImageFree.com - http://www.MyFreeOCR.com - ...
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Comment · 4 years ago
I have created a new website with free images (free low res images 800px) and option to buy full res for 20+ USD. The URL is https://imagefree.com/en It would be great to get some feedback on the website, design and images. Currently I have 1500 images but soon it will reach at least 10K images. All images are unique and authentic - not shown on other image websites. Tech stack: Laravel - PHP, AWS, MySQL
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. I agree - it is on our todo list to look into the speed issue. Will check out this issue with the apostrophe as well. Good idea to display the text.
Comment · 4 years ago
I am currently using Adsense settings that allow Google to choose the placements. It seems it makes the sites too crowded with ads - I agree. We are planning on a new design and when that is done we will have specific spots for ads and not allow Google to choose how many or where to place them.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the feedback. We have privacy links: https://www.myfreeocr.com/en/privacy - we have to look into the terms. I haven't done full comparison to other tools yet but we seems to support more languages and image/pdf formats than other tools.
Comment · 4 years ago
So you knew about my site before I posted it here? How - where? Thanks for the honest feedback - that is exactly what I am looking for. I know the design is not the best and we have plans to make it more modern. If I will implement an OCR API then I have to support good service and the uptime must be good. Currently I have ads from Google AdSense on my site so there is a business model - to get great traffic and revenue from Google and then when the API is ready I could have subscription plans. What other OCR providers do you like or look professional? Yes, you are right the tech is just one part - that is one of the reason I am looking for feedback here. Thanks again - great to get your valuable feedback.
Comment · 4 years ago
I am not sure how we can provide evidence that we don't store those docs unless it is just a desktop app that works without internet connection.
Comment · 4 years ago
We delete the documents and state that on the website - we only count the chars that we convert and add that number to the total number of chars we have converted from the start of the website.
Comment · 4 years ago
I own this website MyFreeOCR.com you can use it to convert images to text. It supports 100 languages and many different formats (pdf to text, tiff to text, bmp to text, jpeg to text, bmp to pdf, jpeg to pdf, and more. I would like to get feedback and feature request from you. Currently we are looking into developing an OCR API. Would that be useful for you?
Comment · 6 years ago
What is your favorite PR tool?
Comment · 6 years ago

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