Jul 10

GT-Layout app word from Fujilim wraps text in images for greater readability on smartphones

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GT-Layout, developed by Fujifilm, rearranges the layout of text in photos making it easier to read on mobile devices.
Usually, if you are trying to read from a photo of a page of a book or a flyer, you need to zoom in and scroll back and forth across the page. With this new technology, the line break is automatically inserted and the words flow to match the available screen space, so the text can be read just by scrolling up and down.
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Jul 09

This is just like word wrap, except that it works with photos (video)

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This is just like plain old word wrap, except that it works with photos video

If you regularly snap pages of hardcopy text on your smartphone for perusing later, then an Android app being developed by Fujifilm may just tick your literary boxes. Called GT-Layout, it automatically carves up a photo containing text so that each character becomes a separate image. These sub-images can then be reformatted with line breaks to fit your screen area and preferred level of zoom — so you don’t have to pinch and pan so much and there’s no need for OCR. Want to try it? Then you’ll have to wait. GT-Layout is reportedly coming in an update to Fujifilm’s Dropbox client, GT-Document Lite, but there’s no sign of it appearing there just yet.

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