Hi *,
Check the attached pic
I started to play a bit with the note taking feature of the iliad, which led me to wonder if it was possible to generate a pdf from the scribbles and the image used.. alas the java scribble merging application only seems to work for PDF scribble. I guess it would be trivial to modify the java app, but I had a look at the xml scribbling format, and when I saw it was so straightforward I quickly wrote myself a MacOSX viewer for the notes, using the png image as a background.
But then... I suddenly remembered the Ink handwriting recognition engine.
This thing comes straight from the ill-fated Apple Newton PDA (such a loss!), but what is nice is that it is available and installed by default on OSX
Turns out it's not too difficult to feed Ink a set of custom datapoints, and after some tweaking it doesn't work too bad apparently, as can be seen on the screenshot...
So far, this is only highly experimental code, and it'll probably take a bit more time to have a really usable application.