Brainstorm

As simple as it sounds!

Optical character recognition and business card recognition for N900;

• Why wait until you get home to digitize your documents when you can do it on the go?
• Why bother typing the names and details of your associates when a simple photo can do all the work?

With N900's great camera the only problem remaining is the coding...

Please fel free to share your thoughts on the matter.

Official thread for Maemo5: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=469124

Thank you!

Reference Discussion at t.m.o: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30395

I've preordered my Nokia N900, and I propose an application for Maemo 5 that I've found very useful on my Blackberry for the past few years. It's the autotext app. What it does is allow the user to pre-program a sequence of characters and have the OS replace said characters with another set. For example, my name is never capitalized on my phone, so I made an autotext for when the OS finds me typing (in real time) kent, it automatically changes it to Kent after pressing space after the word. Some other examples of this are the following (which I use, I'm sure many of you will find it very useful and this will increase your typing speed, and overall productivity). Once again, these are all based on my usage.

As noticed here here, http://my-symbian.com/other/preview_n900.php?page=4, the build-in PDF Reader application has several problems.

1. No kinetic scrolling

This is a huge usability issue. The whole rest OS uses kinetic scrolling exlusively and that makes the PDF Reader inconsistent with the rest of the applications. It also seems to use stylus-sized scrollbars that makes it hard to use it with fingers.

2. No portrait mode

Yes, this has been discussed many and many times over. But since picture viewer supports the portrait mode, why doesn't this application`?

3. No scrolling to another page

User needs to use the dedicated page-changing buttons to change the page. Why the page cannot simply swipe or scoll to next page when you reach the bottom?

4. No search

Searching should be integral part on any application that processes text.

You know that the birtyday of your mother in law  is somewhere in the coming 11 months or that you have some other important meeting. Looking through all events of the coming months may take some time... unless you can search for a calendar event.