The three core needs of the student population are highly compatible with SnapCal+ BOYK's functionality: firstly, the need for fragmented information consolidation, as event posters (lectures, club recruitment, etc.) are usually posted on bulletin boards on campus and are dense with information, and the app's multi-camera zoom function can clearly capture details of colorful posters posted from a distance; secondly, the need for repetitive event management, as cyclical events such as course schedules, lab rotations, etc. can be generated at once for the entire semester through "repetitive pattern" recognition; and finally, cross-platform synchronization. The second is the management of recurring events, such as course schedules, lab rotations, and other periodic events, which can generate the entire semester schedule at once by identifying the "recurring patterns"; and the last one is the cross-platform synchronization, which supports to write the course deadline into Apple Calendar and Google Calendar at the same time, so as to facilitate the synchronization among iPad, Mac, and Android standby machines.
Specific application scenarios include: quickly recording the examination time scrolling notification on the electronic screen of the teaching building; identifying the multi-day workshop schedule in the poster of the Student Activity Center; and capturing the information of job fairs in the screenshot of tweets of the campus public number. Empirical tests show that compared with traditional manual input, using the application to process campus bulletin board information can save an average of 7 minutes/time, and can effectively avoid missing important academic activities due to manual input errors during the final week.
Unique student-friendly design: automatically recognizes expressions specific to academic institutions (e.g., "Winter Semester 2025" translates to a specific date range); supports batch generation of multiple calendar events by scanning images of class schedules; and optimizes the recognition algorithm for campus-intensive event scenarios (it can also handle interfering elements such as logos of organizers, QR codes, and other elements on posters).
This answer comes from the articleSnapCal+ BOYK: Take a photo to automatically extract event information and add it to the calendarThe
