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There is a big gap between what Miro offers and how people behave in the real world. 

It’s fantastic when everyone is remote but from time to time, or even fairly regularly for some people and teams they meet in person. Miro is not a consideration. What do people use? a white board. A real white board.

The difficulty is summarizing these white board sessions and keeping a good record of them. One useful thing about Miro is the ability to return to the virtual white board and edit, add and revisit. 

So, going back to white boards in the office, a common behavior is a photo is taken of the white board and this is stored in a shared environment. 

The idea

Import a white board photo - or extend this to any photo containing text (parameters to be determined by yourselves) and convert it to Miro components set up in the way the photo shows it. Convert the image of text into editable text boxes to post it notes. Draw lines and shapes as the image depicts. 

The problem

These photos are often forgotten, lost or users are manually recreating them in the digital space. Miro has an opportunity to bridge this. 

Looking for something just like this!

I was Googling to see if this is possible and came across this comment

 

We NEEED this 🙏

Extra points if it could also work for things like Architecture diagrams and flow charts created in other systems (e.g. LucidChart or Whimsical)

“I was Googling to see if this is possible and came across this comment”
I did the same. There is a need to recreate a diagram from a picture end update it.

I cannot believe this does not exist already.

i have come across upframe(.)tech they searching for BETA users atm

Hi everyone,

 

Thanks so much for taking the time to submit this idea and share your feedback. We appreciate the feedback.

 

Should our team have any other questions, they will be sure to follow up.  For those coming across this idea, if you feel it's helpful to have or have additional suggestions, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request.

 

This is a workflow we often have to do after our workshops - we use physical whiteboards during our in-person meetups, but digitalize the results afterwards, adding comments and restructuring the board for more space and clarity.

Optimally, this feature would transfer the colors (and formats) of post-it notes, since those usually have meaning when creating the board.

But even a basic variant would be a huge help.

If this works reliably, this could even be used to import diagrams created in other tools (like diagrams.net) from an image - this would be a huge bonus.

This feature might fit well into the new “Create with AI” features - you’d just select an image as board context and the AI extracts the relevant info as miro components.

Same topic: https://community.miro.com/ideas/from-photo-to-miro-board-16468

The following idea has been merged into this idea:

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Theres a tool called upframe.ai that specifically converts images, notes and screenshots into working miro boards. 

 

 

Hi @Matthew Kramer 

 

We appreciate you bringing this to the community’s attention. If anyone else has experience with this or similar tools, feel free to share how it worked for you—this could be really helpful for many users!

 

Also, don't forget to vote for this idea if it resonates with your needs, as the feedback helps guide future Miro developments.

 

Thanks again for contributing!

 

Theres a tool called upframe.ai that specifically converts images, notes and screenshots into working miro boards. 

For transparency, you should mention that you developed this

Hey ​@burgerga , sure thing - i had a team help me develop upframe.ai. Would love some input from people who are interested to test it out as we still in our BETA phase. Let me know if you keen to try it out and i’ll send over a code

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