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Original Post: Can the Livescribe Pen Recognize Cursive?
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OK. I know my handwriting is bad, but it’s not that bad. From the mistakes it’s making, I suspect MyScript is doing letter recognition alone and not trying to recognize entire words or phrases.
Apparently it doesn’t do such a good job with printed text either:
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Better, but still not remotely as good as typing.
Presumably this would get better with practice, but what really surprised me about trying to write in long form is that:
Even though I’m an awful typist, and even if the handwriting recognition were perfect, I’m still faster typing than handwriting.
Writing with the pen is actually more painful than typing. I can type for a couple of hours before I start to notice problems. Writing with the LiveScribe Pen, I didn’t even get to 200 words before my right hand was throbbing. This might be easier if the pen were more appropriately sized like a Bic rather than a Magic Marker.
At best, this pen is only useful for note taking. Ultimately, this seems like little more than an overly complex way to take a snapshot of a notebook page. Annoyingly you can’t even export that to a standard format in any obvious way. Your data is locked into Livescribe’s proprietary program. I had to print to a PDF and take a screenshot of that just to get this picture:
And that’s not even as good as the actual text! My printing is bad, but not that bad. Here’s a photo of the actual page taken with my cell phone:
Actually that doesn’t look so good either, but that’s because my cell phone camera doesn’t take such great pictures, and in this light there’s a lot of color noise. However you can see that the pen saw things that just aren’t on the paper at all. Apparently, the pen “recognizes” motions that are too close to the page but not quite close enough to make a mark with the ink on the paper.
I was hoping for something a little more conducive to writing.
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