Holiday reflections

Posted by Hugh
Dec 29, 2014 at 05:46 PM

Dr Andus wrote:

>If the speed of note-taking is key, another option would be to take
>handwritten notes on the BB Sync, and then sync the resulting PDFs via
>Bluetooth with iPad, PC, Evernote etc. But this leaves the notes in
>handwritten form, which may not be ideal if one needs to be able to
>search that text etc.
>

In my quest to find handwriting input that works, I’m hoping that the makers of the BB Sync enable its output to work with MyScript, a single firm that is the equivalent of Nuance voice-recognition in the handwriting-recognition market. I can’t remember who - but it was possibly you Dr A on this forum - pointed out that somewhere in their online promotional material BB had not discounted that possibility. I think the BB Sync’s predecessor, called the BB Rip (?), now withdrawn, did create files that could be converted into digital text with a MyScript application. But of course, much continues to hang on MyScript’s software really cracking the job of reducing the error rate for handwriting conversion.

>faster due to improvements, as opposed to degrade it, as is the case
>with iOS, Windows etc. updates. But it certainly hasn’t slowed a bit
>since January, when I bought it.