Category: Geeks r Us
Hi guys! does any body know a software that converts handwritten notes into powerful digital text?
I found one: Pegasus Mobile Notetaker Pc Digital Pen Portable Hand Writing . I would look that up in Google though, because I couldn't get whether it is a program or a whole little computer. I think it's a computer with that handwriting-to-text
thing you're asking about. I've been wondering about something like that myself, as it would certainly save time for a blind/dyslexic person, if class notes could be directly converted into text rather than someone needing to read them to that person. I don't know how or if these devices would work with a screen-reading program though. I would think there could/should be a way to save the written text into a regular program like Notepad or something so that a screen-reader could read it, but I don't know.
What does a powerful digital text do that the ordinary digital text can't? I've never seen "powerful digital text" <grin>.
To answer the question, it's generally very hard to convert hand written notes into digitized text, some scanning OCR software claims to be able to be trained to recognize certain types of hand writing but it takes time and it's not reliable. It'd be cool if such a thing existed but I'm doubtful, good luck though and I hope you find something. You might just want to have it read onto tape or type it down yourself, it helps with memorizing it too, I always did that.
cheers
-B
Personally, I was always untrustworthy iof someone else taking notes for me. I know this was a long time ago, but when I was in college, I used a slate and stylus for undergraduate and grad school. The other thing to consider would be formatting. Sighted people take notes in the margins, and I don't know if any software would be capable of figuring out to what a given note would apply. To the last poster, if you go to that store in the mall, you know, the General Note Center, I'm sure you could find some pill or suplement to really give power to those digital notes. Hmmm, I see a late-night infomercial here.
Lou