[Athen] OCR for Documents with Neat Handwriting?

[Nettie Fischer]

Wow, I just reread my post and didn't realize how many typos Iincluded  <ha
ha> was multi-tasking

Another comment - The myscript software requires a pen (Pulse
Scriptwriter) that costs $199.00 while the Fly Fusion pen is in the $59.00
range-a special allowed my purchase to be 39.00 including postage and
handling !!! Bargain for me!.  The one thing that I see as a large
difference between the two pens is the recordability option in the Pulse
Scriptwriter which is not available in the Fly Fusion.

Nettie

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Shelley Haven <rmhaven at stanford.edu>wrote:


> Along those same lines, the Windows version of Livescribe's Pulse smartpen

> can now do handwriting recognition with the addition of MyScript software

> from VisionObjects: <

> http://www.visionobjects.com/handwriting_recognition/pulse/pulse.htm>.

>

> - Shelley

>

>

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> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Nettie Fischer" <nettiet at gmail.com>

> To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" <athen at athenpro.org>

> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:51:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

> Subject: Re: [Athen] OCR for Documents with Neat Handwriting?

>

>

>

> not software but, Fly Fusion (I purchssed a kit for 35.00 on special and ti

> came with 2 notebooks.  when yuo write in the notebook, it can be

> transcribed to print format.  Also, tablet computers offer the same option

> but, handwritng must be neat and of course the trick is to get proficient

> enough so yu dont lose downtime.

>

> Nettie

>

>

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Todd Schwanke < tschwanke at wisc.edu >

> wrote:

>

>

> We have a professor who uses a hand written reader for his course that a

> student needs in audio format (either through recording or e-text).  It is

> very neatly printed (not script), but has a slight italic look to it.

>  Standard OCR attempts do OK on the blocky all caps titles, but when it gets

> to the paragraphs that look more like italic the recognition has too many

> errors to be edited.

>

> Before we engage on more manual attempts at converting this to e-text or a

> digital recording, does anyone have any software suggestions, tips/tricks,

> or processes that might work on fairly neat handwriting?  We've tried

> FineReader & Scansoft settings in Kurzweil and Microsoft Document Imaging.

>

> I can email a snippet off-list if that is helpful to see.

>

> Thanks, Todd

>

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