Recognition of Handwriting

[Heikki Sørum]

God points of clarification, I should have mentioned that too.

Heikki Soerum.


Den Thu, 1 May 2008 08:23:26 +0800
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org> skrev:

> 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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