[Update] Faure 0.3 (Play release)
Karl Ramberg
karl.ramberg at chello.se
Fri Nov 29 12:39:02 UTC 2002
Russell Allen wrote:
> The scribble pad definately needs to be multipage; it also needs to be
> saved by default (at the moment you will lose the scribble if you quit
> the image). How to save these things most effectively I'm not sure;
> maybe magma or minnestore...
My first thought was a book morph. But it needs more indexing
capabilities
as one will add stuff possibly over many years.
This need some carefull thinking...
> Handwriting recognition is a biggie. I haven't tried out genie yet; so
> I can't comment. I'll have a look at it though. My goal would be a
> system that wasn't so damn modal as Palm/WinCE - I hate having to either
> write in a special place or to switch into a 'keyboard mode' to write
> anything.
This is my impression, too. I have not used either palm nor win ce but
extensivly but there has to be a better way.
>
> If genie works the way I suspect it would, then there will be problems
> with an after-the-fact recognition of letters in a saved bitmap. Most
> character recognition stuff I know of uses pen stroke info - you'd
> either have to save the strokes, or use a dedicated OCR program.
>
Storing this info should not be so hard. A morphs path can be stored
as array of points. But I really don't now anything about character
recognition so all I can do is speculate.
Karl
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