Hi there! I have some suggestions that I’d like to see if I use Leo in the future:
I would like to have an option to open a document from the list in a new window. Otherwise, after viewing a document, the sheet sometimes opens from the very beginning, and each time you have to search for the viewed document again.
It would be great if Leo would memorize the “line per page” choice. I always use the maximum number of lines per page (50) for easy navigation, and every time after reloading the page Leo resets this selection, which is inconvenient.
It would be great to be able to transcribe pdf files, not pictures only. Sometimes working in an archive I make a scan of the whole document in pdf, and in case I use Leo I have to convert it to images.
Now Leo, when it can’t transcribe text (let’s say bad handwriting and poor visibility), still puts a green dot, supposedly he transcribed. It would be great if you add a dot of a different color for such cases. It would help to navigate through the records and see those documents that Leo couldn’t recognize, because in this case I transcribe them manually.
I don’t know for sure if its an issue of my software, but long headings do to the document part of screen in this way:
This is so helpful, thank you Maria! Fortunately points 2, 3, and 5 are already being fixed. I’ve added the first point to our to-do list, noting it should be added as an option in the “…” dropdown and that it should be possible to hold command on macOS / control on Windows to open an item in a new tab.
As for the fourth, it’s a challenge—as I mentioned here, the trouble is to detect when a transcription has failed “without developing a model with a superior capability than the one we already have”. There are ways that we can think about doing this but it’ll probably take a while. Did you find the “Finalised” transcription status marker useful in the meantime?
Thanks Maria! PDF uploads and long image name issues should now have been addressed by the latest release (v0.1.4) but please let us know if you spot any problems!
Very impressed with Leo’s interface. Here are a few suggestions.
It would be useful to have the ability to append notes to not only to individual images within a document but to entire documents. Particularly when working with longer documents (tens or hundreds of pages) it would be helpful to have a place to make notes to self, write down progress with the doc and to-dos, etc.
In addition to being able to modify the image (rotate, etc), it would be great to be able to annotate it - to attach comments, as with a PDF, in order to flag particularly important lines, problematic words, etc.
super minor, but: the “Items Fetched” pop-up that appears at the bottom of the screen whenever you call up an image lingers too long and interferes with navigation
These are all very helpful, thank you! “Global” notes for a single item have come up a few times before and we’ll be introducing them when we overhaul the transcript annotation system. Interestingly I don’t think annotations to the image itself have come up before but it makes perfect sense. Maybe we could link this into one single, markup-style annotation system.
