Do I need a special camera?
Short answer: No! The ideal camera depends on your specific setup. The good news: ShareTheBoard makes every camera special!
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In a nutshell: Point a camera at a writing surface and connect it to a computer running ShareTheBoard software; then decide where you’d like your board content to go.

Odds are that you already have everything you need to get started.
ShareTheBoard software is optimized to run on just about any computer: your laptop, the lectern PC, or our plug-and-play STBox if the room has no computer available. Install the desktop application to benefit from full automation or keep things simple with our web app.
No need for expensive hardware: ShareTheBoard makes every camera smart. Even a simple webcam might be enough to capture your selected surface. Choosing the right camera is ultimately a factor of its position and the size of the board to be captured.
The best part: you keep writing the way you always have. Whiteboards, blackboards, digital boards – they all work. No sensors, no new hardware, no styluses to buy. Just identify the surface to be captured and ShareTheBoard does the rest.
You decide exactly how to share your board with your audience. Need help? Learn more about running your session.
ShareTheBoard strips out glare, shadows, board imperfections, and even presenters. Viewers not only get crisp, unobstructed content, they can rewind and zoom at will and even contribute to the board.
Working with a remote or hybrid audience? Sometimes the visual context around the board is instrumental to the experience. Content Overlay gives you sharp, clear board contents detected in real time, layered over the raw camera image.
Captured board content can be revisited, augmented, and automatically distributed.
ShareTheBoard stores all of your board contents into a secure instant replay. It identifies key moments and automatically transcribes contents into their corresponding formats. Authors can add, edit, and analyze contents at will, before sharing with their audience.
Just about every step in this flow can be automated, allowing presenters to focus entirely on their audience. Save room setups, automate session schedules or trigger them with third-party applications, and automatically distribute access to Board Memory. You write on the board, ShareTheBoard does the rest.