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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 13:11, Michael Mortimore wrote: > My pda (admittedly not linux) has handwriting recognition and it's > more trouble than it's worth. it takes so long to fix recognition > mistakes that the onscreen keyboard is significantly quicker. I found > myself having to learn the symbols it knows rather than teach it my > handwriting. It often interprets click and drag as writing when i > didn't want it to. Some 25 years ago (creak groan strange smells) I used to use a graphics pad on a CAD system that had a lot of symbols inbuilt and you could also teach it others. Very Very useful and a lot lot faster/safer than shortcuts or menus! Thanks for reminding me - I might just have a play with some javascript stuff later! > > I don't know if there's linux software for handwriting recognition but > if there was I'd expect it to be equally awful. > > I read somewhere that for linux graphics tablets the only sensible > option is wacom cheers I'll hunt it down.. > > On 10/10/06, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone has experience of linux handwriting recognition > > as I've just seen a 'Nisis Easypen G3 USB Graphics Tablet (6" Active > > Area) inc Cordless Mouse & Pen' for just over a tenner which might be > > worth a laugh Tom te tom te tom > > > > > > -- > > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html