Resources

- Card scanning frame is made available in JPG format.
  - To use this, print the frame unto a A4 sheet of transparency and place it on your flatbed scanner
  - Place the sheet with the cards aligned to the top left edge of your scanner
  - Setup the scanner to scan images at 300dpi
  - Scan away!

Notes
- Note that you can only use the iPhone interface when using the iPhone, and
  the Browser interface when using the browser.
- Also note that the site has only been designed to work in Safari

Looking for Help
- I am looking for individuals interested to work-on and improve the
  functionality of this site. Especially individuals who share similar name card pains as myself.
- Please contact me at copperblue+at+fastmail+dot+fm if you are interested to
  assist me in making this project better.

Donations
- I am currently hoping to move this service to a dedicated host within a data
  center so that better bandwidth can be provided to users around the globe, 
  and also to help fund further development of this project.
- Do contact me at copperblue+at+fastmail+dot+fm if you are interested to
  donate. Do include (1) your name (2) email address, and (3) the donation amount.

ChangeLog

alpha 9
- A native version of CardOCR has been developed! with alot of help from my
  friends. If anyone is interested to try it, please contact me via email. 
  Otherwise, it is just a replica of the web version but built on native webkit. 
  This means that the offline functionalities now works perfectly.

alpha 8
- Another much better revision of the CardOCR iPhone Webapp has been released.
  It now spots a much cleaner UI and have some functionalities of the iPhone 
  version readjusted.
- New functions includes, fullscreen view of cards and better overall handling.
- Change in WebClip Icon

alpha 7
- Finally tried to release the application as a Web App. More fixes on the
  information provided at the login page

alpha 6
- Alignment corrects and multiple fixes... (there are so many that i can't
  remember)

alpha 5
- updated iPhone interface to include gesture support
- Buttons on top bar is now removed. cleaner overall
- code for slide down options removed as it makes it too slow to render. use gestures instead

alpha 4
- Severe code changes in mobile edition
- complete code revamp and mobile version is now only usable in iphone and ipod touch 2.0
- older version is still available under http://himiko.dnsalias.net/cardocr/mobile_browser.pl after login
- new ipod edition no includes new animations, transistion, and a much better layout.
- new proxying feature but it is as of this point only available as a admin specific setting
- tested with digital camera for card capture and result is successful (card size needs to be edited though)
- for chinese support for both browser and iphone/ipod, please use UTF-8 encoding

alpha 3
- added QR code generation
- added vcard forms and editing panels
- added VCF download scripts
- bugfixes and improvements for IE
- implemented mobile editing interface
- implemented mobile QRCode interface
- implemented mobile logout
- implemented photo attachment to each card when in web browser
- implemented mobile view for cards with attached photo and placed edit function into seperate page
- implemented wavelet algorithm for card comparison! based on imgseek!
- implemented mobile and browser SIMILAR mode!
- touched up editing layout
- touched up view layouts
- implemented more display elements under CSS
- implemented UI improvements using DHTML animation
- re-arranged and touched up mobile browser and similar browser elements
- implemented layers for categories browsing and background grayouts to indicate focus area
- date field more accurately updated during edits for recent sorting
- fixed glitches in navigation
- fixed glitches in mobile version graphical display
- provided better verbose when dealing with cards display in the ALL category
- added google maps support

alpha 2
- added add/dete/rename category management features
- added display element controls via style sheets
- rearranged mainview display elements
- bug fixes to search displays
- bug fixes to direction action URLs
- bug fixes to search paging and display
- naviagtion inprovements on mainview
- changed card processing backend into a queueing system for better scalability
- modified mainview to allow count of cards in queue
- added Styles for better looking tables using CSS3 elements
- bug fixes for create category
- stored preferences for mainview so that state of the mainview is always maintained
- fixes for image and table transparency upon highlight
- made fade in and out of background color faster for selection purposes
- changed status colors to be more striking for attention
- color touchups
- design touchups
- bug fix to login method. more stable login and logout functions
- inlcuded a BTW mobile viewer page
- updated mobile viewer to be iPHone style using official CSSes

alpha 1
- Reduced the number of artifcats on the upload selection page
- enabled cell to select each card on upload page
- enabled background color fading when mouse moves over cell
- Improved OCR and correction suggeston
- Visual improvements in mainview
- added search function
- added placeholder icons for intended future actions
- improved accuracy of scanned resutls
- reduced amount of variations when processing upload
- added delete functions
- added attempts to make app orientation aware and auto rotate
- change default card format to JPG to improve speed
- added category selection
- added create category functions
- added move cards into category functions
- added post scan rotation functions

alpha 0
- Initial version setup.
- Created Login, uploading and Mainview sections
- Enabled automatic cropping of image and extraction of text during upload
- Created login functions with only requirements for Email and strong passwords
- Created Main view in tabular form
- Created background color change upon selection
- Allowed highlighting of cells when selected
- Namecard preview when mose moves over image