Boogie Board Sync 9.7 eWriter

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 22, 2014 at 09:16 PM

Hugh wrote:
>For completeness in the above post, I should have mentioned the iOS and
>other tablet apps, especially Samsung’s, that offer to recognise
>handwriting and convert it to printed text. I haven’t found the various
>iOS apps especially accurate (the best in my experience is made by
>MyScript); unfortunately the iOS screen isn’t ideally designed for
>accurate stylus work. Perhaps the Samsung devices and apps are better
>for this purpose; I’ve no experience of them.

Yes they are; that explains how Samsung can charge so much more for its Note line of products which include digitizer+stylus. I have an 8” Note II and the writing resolution is excellent with the stylus. Most other tablets have been built for resolution of the scale of a finger.

Note however that handwriting recognition is not a feature of the Samsung devices themselves. This is provided by independent software such as Mazec3 and Stylus Beta, mentioned here http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5245/5

My experience is that recognition is quite accurate (even with my terrible handwriting). However, it is also quite slow; I assume that it requires substantial processing power.