Tablet PCs

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Fri Jun 13 20:38:17 UTC 2003


On Friday 13 June 2003 11:36 am, Aaron J Reichow wrote:

> One possibility I've always wondered about is using an external
> recognizer, feeding it the information from your Ink Morph, for
> example. (is this available anywhere?) On desktop Windows and CE,
> Squeak could feed it to CalliGrapher/Transcriber- it has an API for
> exactly this sort of thing.  I've never done it for Dynapad on
> WinCE/PocketPC, but it could be a way to provide real HWR to folks
> on those platforms.

This is possible, but I haven't done it. I don't know anything about 
the Windows tablet API.

> In this InkMorph+Genie thing, are you planning on attempting real
> HWR at all?

No. I'm capturing disconnected strokes that I can then feed to Genie 
in the background.

>  Trying to disconnect the letters of a word and then
> feed it to Genie?

That, of course, is the hard part...

>  While I've never achieved much of a speed with
> any sort of stroke/character recogntion, I can achieve 50 WPM using
> Newton OS 2.x HWR or CalliGrapher.

And in fact the TabletPC recognizer is pretty good, though it's slow 
and uses a dictionary.

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