It had been awhile since I played with handwriting recognition. I remember the Newton and when I had to learn the special alphabet for the Palm III, my first PDA. I tried out my colleague’s Lenovo X61 tablet PC and was very impressed; I purposely wrote messy words, yet it still recognized my handwriting perfectly.
Handwriting recognition has come a long way and has become more intuitive. Maybe, I would’ve enjoyed taking notes in college a little more. At the very least, I certainly wouldn’t have all my note papers from college sitting in boxes taking up space in my storage closet.
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I got to play with the Axiotron Modbook at Macworld, it’s handwriting recognition worked pretty well too. If it could read my chicken scratch then they’ve done a great job programming it.
I played with the Modbook at Macworld, too. It doesn’t recognize cursive, though, and wasn’t intuitive as the Lenovo where you could just write on a digital sheet of lined paper and convert your handwriting to text; you had to use a separate window, then submit the text, using the built in handwriting recognition software in Mac OS X (Inkwell).
Your “messy” writing is still impeccably neat.
Very cool! Haha, I’m the same. I have papers/notebooks/etc from high school and college sitting at home (as in home home) in the basement. Plus all this med school junk (that I’ll probably never look at again) and Residency stuff sitting here in my apartment taking up boxes and boxes of space. Ugh… Would love to digitize it all but I’m way too lazy for that.