Taking handwritten notes on digital devices

Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Apr 5, 2018 at 02:28 PM

Hugh wrote:
>But the real challenge, it appears to me, is to create software that will reliably and accurately convert that handwriting to text.

Not all handwriting need to be converted to text. A handwriting word processor is all about writing by hand and being able to do edits (insert / move text, reflow around page, images and columns, etc)

>Today, the developer MyScript has been in existence a relatively long time and seems to lead the field

I’ve used MyScript before, namely its Nebo app. It has the best handwriting to text conversion I’ve seen. But… as a handwriting word processor, it is quite poor, StylusLabs Write is much better.

> But even MyScript apps do not, it seems to me, match the accuracy of, say, Nuance voice-to-text
>In other words, when working on a medium-form or long-form project, if you want to convert handwriting to text, you can get a better result (i.e. a more efficient combination of accuracy and speed) if you write the text out by hand and then use voice-to-text software to convert it to hardcopy, than if you rely on handwriting-to-text.

Agreed 100% !

Pierre