Recognition of Handwriting

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:48:28 +0200 Heikki Sørum <heikkis at matnat.uio.no> babbled:

5. can't use it with a finger
6. the gta01 or 02don't come with a stylus you can dock in the phone, so you
always have a big separate pen (the one we ship) or need to have some other
pointy implement with you to serve as a stylus.

> I'm currently using cellwriter on my two tablet PC's and might have some
> useful input regarding cellwriter.
> 
> I agree that cellwriter might be a promising program on openmoko but
> there are certain quirks that might need looking into. 
> 1. cellwriter need extensive training to recognize handwriting reliable.
> (About 20 samples pr. character. )
> 2. I've never managed to get cellwriter to play nice with gtk(or QT
> based) docking applications. 
> 3. It's build-in docking feature always expand the input area to cover
> the whole bottom or top of the screen. 
> 4. autocomplete in firefox and cellwriter's OSD keyboard doesn't mix
> because firefox autocomplete tend to steal the focus. (E.g. every
> character has to be tapped twice.) Of course, this is a firefox specific
> problem, but it's a gui problem when the character recognition software
> is a free floating application rather than a true nested OSD
> keyboard/character recognition program. In my opinion microsoft's
> tablet edition on-screen keyboard has a smarter focus handling. 
> Of course, microsoft software has it's fair share of.... quirks..
> *snicker*
> 
> What I would die for was some sort of wordlist backend for cellwriter
> in addition to it's character recognition.
> 
> Heikki Soerum.
> 
> 
> Den Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:55:58 +0200
> Sebastian Billaudelle <sebbil at gmx.de> skrev:
> 
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > While surfing around I found an very nice app called CellWriter
> > (http://risujin.org/cellwriter/).
> > I tried it out using my mouse... I think it's much better then the
> > Windows Mobile stuff!
> > 
> > I think it should be no problem to get it fitting to our needs...
> > 
> > cheers
> > Sebastian
> > 
> > Please do not send me any Microsoft Office documents - I won't accept
> > them!
> > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for more
> > information!
> > 
> > Sorry!
> 
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