An edge Journal file is a gzip'd compressed XML text file. The text describes the strokes. We only need some clever person to understand what is in the text file and convert it to something another handwriting recognition program would use.
I generated a test file in Journal that looks something like this:
A B C D E
This is a test
Black
Red
Blue
Orange
(Well' it looked kinda orange to me.) Inside the file it calls this color "yellow".
Uncompressed, the test Journal file looks like this:
Code:
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<xournal version="0.4.2.1">
<title>ESI journal v1.0</title>
<author>Kenneth Jennings</author>
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. . . to be continued . . .