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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
Diopen does a reasonable job on my cursive (cursed?) writing, especially now that predictive text is available, but still required a fair amount of training. I still prefer Graffiti (also available for andriod) simply because I got very proficient at it in the Palm days and because it forced me to be neater.
The post-writing recognition you talked about does exist. It is built into Google Docs and Evernote I believe, and recognition is done by their servers AFAIK. I haven't used either, they are not of use to me. I do know that the best post-writing recognition is done by saving the pen strokes as paths rather than bitmaps so look for a product that saves as vector PDF or SVG rather than JPG.
Dictation solutions require a constant connection, which is a nogo for me (wifi only tablets, not gonna pay for a data plan for my phone). If anyone knows of a record-now-process-later solution (other than hiring a stenographer  ), let me know. |
Thanks for a very informative post. Some of this I was not aware of. I am just now catching up with my technical work after a 2 week vacation and nearly a month of working on business details, contracts, plans and projects, personnel and all the garbage that it takes to be a partner in a small company.
I much prefer the technical work and my personal writing to executive work, but it seems that it is necessary to keep going in this economy. I keep analyzing my financial input stream versus obligations and it keeps coming back with flags saying "Keep your stressful day job!"
Anyway, I am now getting back to at least planning writing projects. An hour ago, while I was in the lavatory I was writing a new idea down, in outline form, for an a SciFi adventure on one of those frontier worlds we all love so. I was using 4x6" cards placed on the back of a pamphlet. It would really be great to be able to later just scan that in and have digital text pop out that could be printed, saved and backed up all in searchable, retrievable form.
I am very familiar with Canada having worked on projects there and having relatives there. I too am sporting what some would call a goatee but I don't personally use that term because I don't think it really adheres to the standard goatee forms that come up with a Google search, so I don't disparage your location or appearance.