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FonePrint

FonePrint is live! It’s a small project/MVP experiment that I am working on. The idea is if you’re traveling and/or have no access to a printer, you simply upload your document and then FonePrint will print and ship your document to you or your selected recipient.

This is part of my generative AI experimentation so a lot of the content (and code!) is AI-generated. I used Vercel V0 for generating the initial UI, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet for the initial code. I then integrated and finished up using Cursor. Impressive how far AI has gone.

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Making An AI-Powered Business Card Reader

Writing a business card reader can be tedious. I first tried using Tesseract, an open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine. But besides OCR, you still need to segment the images, do optical character recognition (OCR) then identify text patterns for names, title, phones, emails, etc and extract them. Quite a lot of work if you have a big stack of business cards to go through.

But thankfully, technology and especially AI has come a long way and we can use widely available AI engines such as OpenAI’s to make the job easier… unbelievably easier. In this post, we’ll go through the whole thing from start to finish.

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