Digital Pen Hell
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We are starting a new project writing a system to take digital pen input, which is strokes of x/y points and running it through handwriting recognition engines. The state of the art in handwriting recognition is terrible. If you write outside the "norm", you get garbage as the translated text. Anyone else out there have any experience with pen to text conversions? onwards and upwards...
I wrote a character recognition program once in Matlab (for a class project). It came out pretty decent and recognized quite well. I implemented using two methods .. Chain codes and Fourier Descriptors. But perhaps what you're doing is far more advanced than that ? "To his dog, every man is Napoleon"
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We are starting a new project writing a system to take digital pen input, which is strokes of x/y points and running it through handwriting recognition engines. The state of the art in handwriting recognition is terrible. If you write outside the "norm", you get garbage as the translated text. Anyone else out there have any experience with pen to text conversions? onwards and upwards...
It seems like you either have to convert your writting style to match that which the software expects (ala palm) or the software needs to build a profile of your writting style. At least until we can come up with pattern recoginition software that can match against a huge database real fast. And that still seems a ways off. Todd Smith
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We are starting a new project writing a system to take digital pen input, which is strokes of x/y points and running it through handwriting recognition engines. The state of the art in handwriting recognition is terrible. If you write outside the "norm", you get garbage as the translated text. Anyone else out there have any experience with pen to text conversions? onwards and upwards...
basementman wrote: Anyone else out there have any experience with pen to text conversions? Yes, I do: sometimes, I start writing with my pen on the paper, and no one can read the resulting text; I discovered that my handwriting is the most advanced form of cryptography ever developed, and if properly applied, cannot be deciphered even with the most powerful algorithms. Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
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basementman wrote: Anyone else out there have any experience with pen to text conversions? Yes, I do: sometimes, I start writing with my pen on the paper, and no one can read the resulting text; I discovered that my handwriting is the most advanced form of cryptography ever developed, and if properly applied, cannot be deciphered even with the most powerful algorithms. Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
I don't know about that. My handwriting may be more cryptic than yours! ;) In either case, my hands are so far out of practice with pen and paper that it actually hurts to write more than a couple paragraphs! Where's this paperless office, Adobe?! :suss:
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I don't know about that. My handwriting may be more cryptic than yours! ;) In either case, my hands are so far out of practice with pen and paper that it actually hurts to write more than a couple paragraphs! Where's this paperless office, Adobe?! :suss:
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Heath Stewart wrote: Where's this paperless office, Adobe?! They're still waiting for Acrobat Reader 6 finish up loading the damn plugins. Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
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I don't know about that. My handwriting may be more cryptic than yours! ;) In either case, my hands are so far out of practice with pen and paper that it actually hurts to write more than a couple paragraphs! Where's this paperless office, Adobe?! :suss:
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Heath Stewart wrote: it actually hurts to write more than a couple paragraphs! A few years ago, I got used to writing a diary at vacations. The first time it was a real pain - my hand did cramp after a few paragraphs etc. But when I returned home, I was fluid enough that it felt natural to grab pen and paper to sketch a class diagram, or write down the adress of a jumping variable. These daily bits keep my hand trained enough to keep on "rolling". Suffice to say, it is wonderful. notepad, powerpoint, visio, corel, adobe are so awkward and bulky tools. and quick dextrous hands get bonus points with the ladies.
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Heath Stewart wrote: it actually hurts to write more than a couple paragraphs! A few years ago, I got used to writing a diary at vacations. The first time it was a real pain - my hand did cramp after a few paragraphs etc. But when I returned home, I was fluid enough that it felt natural to grab pen and paper to sketch a class diagram, or write down the adress of a jumping variable. These daily bits keep my hand trained enough to keep on "rolling". Suffice to say, it is wonderful. notepad, powerpoint, visio, corel, adobe are so awkward and bulky tools. and quick dextrous hands get bonus points with the ladies.
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mlog || Agile Programming | doxygenMy problem's actually tendinitis, though. :sigh:
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Heath Stewart wrote: Where's this paperless office, Adobe?! They're still waiting for Acrobat Reader 6 finish up loading the damn plugins. Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
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I know it from quite a long time, and that's why I mentioned the damn plugins, but it's a very good indication, indeed. Due to technical difficulties my previous signature, "I see dumb people" will be off until further notice. Too many people were thinking I was talking about them... :sigh:
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We are starting a new project writing a system to take digital pen input, which is strokes of x/y points and running it through handwriting recognition engines. The state of the art in handwriting recognition is terrible. If you write outside the "norm", you get garbage as the translated text. Anyone else out there have any experience with pen to text conversions? onwards and upwards...