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I saw it in action at hackMIT and it seemed to work really well.

You can use something like Onenote to save the image, which will OCR the image and make it searchable and also gives an option to Copy text on right click.

Disclaimer: Microsoftie

I'm working on an OCR project at the moment; I'd love to see which library they used.

Many submissions aren't actually made in the given time period. They usually will bring either a partially to fully complete project (pretty sure it's cheating but yeah).

About 22 hours, actually. Hacking started about 11am Saturday, and ended 9am Sunday. It was a really short one!

I was there. You point the flashlight on your phone at your computers webcam. The software (Javascript / Canvas I think) lets you draw with the light, while you can change colours with your phone. The bonus part was where they used the intensity of the light as a Z-axis, so by moving the phone closer / further away you could build a 3D light painting in the canvas.

Reminds me of this awesome project that a buddy of mine at Google did:

https://www.justareflektor.com/

I think it depends on your notebook's webcam: Webcam recognizes your smart phone's flash (flash = cursor location) and allows you to draw on a virtual surface...

And of course we're all free every day to "learn by doing" -- but without necessarily any competitions, without schools, without universities, without bureaucracy, rules, hierarchies, paperwork, etc. Just do things. Just learn. Rinse, repeat.

It was really sweet. They were a little crunched for time so they didn't get to fully show everyone but they had my vote for winner.