StrongSteam's second user survey

Thanks for coming through to our second http://StrongSteam.com survey (the first survey is here if you've not filled that in already: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7377L7L ).

The focus here is on the commercial use of our API, i.e. the needs you have for your work or for projects that you charge money for. We want to understand what we could give you that brings you the most value.

This survey focuses on the most frequent answers from the first survey (we're not ruling other topics out, we're asking questions on what appear to be the popular topics).

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* 1. Which of these Image Recognition tasks would be very useful to you?

Recognising images from my own set of images (e.g. beer pump labels or an artwork collection)

Recognising images from a pre-provided image set (e.g. book covers or music CD covers)

Recognising elements from a computer screen (e.g. icons and toolbars in a screenshot)

Near-real-time image processing is essential (i.e. with a response time < 3 seconds)

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Which of these Optical Character Recognition tasks would be very useful to you?

Extracting text from scanned documents (i.e. conventional OCR)

Extracting text from real-world photos (e.g. signs or photos from an iPhone)

Extracting text from computer generated images (e.g. screenshots)

Near-real-time OCR is essential (i.e. with a response time < 3 seconds)

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Which of these Natural Language Processing tasks would be very useful to you?

Sentiment Analysis

Named Entity Recognition

Parsing

Stemming and Lemmatization

Processing pages of text (e.g. documents)

Processing paragraphs of text (e.g. blog posts)

Processing sentences (e.g. tweets)

Near-real-time processing is essential (i.e. with a response time < 3 seconds)

Other (please specify)

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* 4. A number of you stated that Machine Learning was very interesting. Can you explain the type of task you'd like to solve with ML?

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* 5. Which types of media are you commonly processing?

Computer generated images (e.g. screenshots)

Images from mobile phones

Images containing text

Video from mobile phones

Video from other sources

Text from databases and files (i.e. 'clean' text)

Text from websites (i.e. scraped and possibly 'dirty' text)

Audio including speech

Audio without speech

Other (please specify)