Snapter in Brief

Snapter is a recently developed internet software that converts digital images of paper into PDF format. It uses “complicated algorithms” to crop, straighten, and flatten the pictured paper—the flattening is especially useful when one is uploading images of books with the notorious “roll” in the page. One has then successfully scanned their book without the wear-and-tear on the book, which is generally ideal when working with old books that have accrued both value and dust. Snapter would ideally be able to facilitate the process of scanning the books libraries want to transcribe without the concern of destroying the original manuscript in the process. With the images converted into PDF format by Snapter, we can then easily distribute the PDF files to the crowdsourcing users (probably through Mturk) in a format they can access, read, and transcribe.