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Jmirko · 07-07-2017, 02:17 AM

Thanks for the info. Actually, I have several old e-readers which support that type of handwriting recognition - the Irex Iliad 2 from 2007, or the Hanvon N800, for example. I always found this to be slower than typing on the virtual keyboard. Also, it's cumbersome to tell the device where you want to write, and part of the screen is covered by the box...
My preference would be an ex-post OCR functionality: you write by hand wherever you want on the screen, and when you are done, you click an icon to run the OCR. It keeps your handwriting, but creates a text file (or a text box in the same file) with similar formatting (indents, bullets, underlines, etc.).

07-07-2017, 02:17 AM	#10
Jmirko Recovered collector Posts: 398 Karma: 1555507 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Vienna, Austria Device: see signature	Thanks for the info. Actually, I have several old e-readers which support that type of handwriting recognition - the Irex Iliad 2 from 2007, or the Hanvon N800, for example. I always found this to be slower than typing on the virtual keyboard. Also, it's cumbersome to tell the device where you want to write, and part of the screen is covered by the box... My preference would be an ex-post OCR functionality: you write by hand wherever you want on the screen, and when you are done, you click an icon to run the OCR. It keeps your handwriting, but creates a text file (or a text box in the same file) with similar formatting (indents, bullets, underlines, etc.).