Check out Genie. It's really terrific. Nathanael did a great job!

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:39 PM +0100 11/29/02, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>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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