Comment Input & OCR (Score 1) 318
geez, from the sounds of things Nokia should have licensed Calligrapher or whatever it's called these days. (Russian company originally, IIRC, at one time owned by SGI, then either spunoff or otherwise became independent... They used to sell OCR software for wince machines that was pretty good, but not appreciably better than M$'s transcribe(? or whatever it's called...). They also produced the original cursive OCR for the Newton which was fairly decent with a good sized dictionary, pretty much a must for decent OCR. (Printed text should work better, but it's slower inputting info, and if you can't even print decently, well... and spacing of characters can be problematic...)
Had they done this at least the keyboard part would have gone away, as this device shouldn't even really expect to have a keyboard excepting in rare situations as it's a TABLET! otherwise it'd be a funky NOTEBOOK!
Still sounds sort of nifty, esp. at the price, but overall I'd still think that I'd rather go with a Tabletpc or an origami device with a full windows install, etc. They're not that much more expensive and offer greater(if not notebook class) performance and capabilities, plus on the Tabletpcs there do exist linux distros that support them to an extent, but then you'd be back to crappy OCR again. Hmm... so, I guess I'd be much happier with either a full notebook with some decent horsepower or an origami as the Tabletpcs are even more stunted now v. when they first appeared they weren't that much more poorly off than current notebooks...
Had they done this at least the keyboard part would have gone away, as this device shouldn't even really expect to have a keyboard excepting in rare situations as it's a TABLET! otherwise it'd be a funky NOTEBOOK!
Still sounds sort of nifty, esp. at the price, but overall I'd still think that I'd rather go with a Tabletpc or an origami device with a full windows install, etc. They're not that much more expensive and offer greater(if not notebook class) performance and capabilities, plus on the Tabletpcs there do exist linux distros that support them to an extent, but then you'd be back to crappy OCR again. Hmm... so, I guess I'd be much happier with either a full notebook with some decent horsepower or an origami as the Tabletpcs are even more stunted now v. when they first appeared they weren't that much more poorly off than current notebooks...
