Monday, February 02, 2009
New Business Idea [probably already exists]
Sell a high quality notebook that comes with a sturdy but removable binding and a prepaid envelope to mail the notebook back when it is full. When the notebook is returned, it will be scanned and OCR'd (to the extent possible based on the content), and you will get a searchable PDF emailed to you.
I really would've liked to have this product/service in college and grad school. Instead of having all of my notes readily available, I either threw out the notebooks after the class ended or it's in a pile of crap somewhere I will probably never look at again.
This would also be great for professional services firms. Upon starting a new project each team member gets a notebook. At the end of the project, or when a team member "rotates off," the notebook is scanned and added to the project's digital files, for compliance purposes and retention of institutional knowledge.
With some of those industrial Google library scanners, it would probably be fairly cheap to implement the service.
Sell a high quality notebook that comes with a sturdy but removable binding and a prepaid envelope to mail the notebook back when it is full. When the notebook is returned, it will be scanned and OCR'd (to the extent possible based on the content), and you will get a searchable PDF emailed to you.
I really would've liked to have this product/service in college and grad school. Instead of having all of my notes readily available, I either threw out the notebooks after the class ended or it's in a pile of crap somewhere I will probably never look at again.
This would also be great for professional services firms. Upon starting a new project each team member gets a notebook. At the end of the project, or when a team member "rotates off," the notebook is scanned and added to the project's digital files, for compliance purposes and retention of institutional knowledge.
With some of those industrial Google library scanners, it would probably be fairly cheap to implement the service.
