QiPit Turns Cameraphone Images to PDFs

I've often found myself in meetings where my colleagues and I fill a whiteboard with ideas but forget to write any of them down. When the meeting is over, we all run back to our desks, grab pens and paper, and come back to the conference room to try and make sense of our whiteboard notes.

With QiPit, we can fill up a whiteboard without worrying that we won't be able to leave the meeting with copies of everything we wrote. QiPit allows you to use your cameraphone to snap an image of a document, a whiteboard or chalkboard, or even handwritten notes and convert it to a PDF that you can e-mail, fax, or publish straight from your phone.





Whether you're sitting in a long corporate meeting, and you've filled up the whiteboard with ideas and bullet points, or you're sitting in a class where your professor likes to erase the board before you can write everything down, QPit can help. You can take pictures of just about anything with your camera phone, then send the image to QiPit, which will convert the image into a PDF document and send it back to you.

Qipit works equally well with chalkboards, written notes, whiteboards, and printed documents. The limiting factor is the quality of your camera phone. The service works with most major camera phones and offers a model selector that tells you what you can do with each type of phone. The service's basic features work best with whiteboards, handwritten notes, and printed documents, but the better the camera on your phone, the higher-quality images and PDFs it can produce for you. QiPit does some image clean-up for you--brightening up dark images to bring out the text, for example.



Once you have the converted PDF, you can store it on your phone or on the Web, e-mail it to yourself or your colleagues, fax it to a friend from your cell phone, and publish it to the Web. Alternatively, you can save PDFs in your QiPit account, tag them, and organize them. The service was designed to be used with camera phones, but you can use a digital camera as well and e-mail the photo to your QiPit account.

QiPit members use the service for ideas scribbled on napkins, class notes on chalkboards, and handwritten notes from meetings and study sessions. If you're the type of person who's always jotting down notes on random slips of paper, QiPit could be useful for you to get all of those ideas in one place. Best of all, the service is free.