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| BillyNerenberg |
 Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:35 pm |
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Would be extremely valuable if you could not only print out a copy of your calendar and fold it/carry it with you, but if you could then update your computer with the notes you took using a scanner and handwriting recognition.
Imagine printing out your day. As you go through your day, you take notes on the paper you printed out and carry with you. You write doen follow-up actions, reminders, key learnings. Then when you are done with your day, you scan back in the paper you had printed and taken notes on and walla, it is all updated on your PC.
Now that would be truly cool. |
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| BloatedBunny |
| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:55 pm |
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| It would be cool, but I highly doubt that it will happen. |
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| xzk |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:45 am |
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why don't you just beam it into the computer using your mind powers..
also, I'm pretty sure what you described does exist in the form of a pocket-sized electronic device called a PDA or PIM, it has a stylis that you write on the screen with, and it has handwriting recognition ...if you write slow enough. |
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| shwouchk |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:00 pm |
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[quote="xzk"]why don't you just beam it into the computer using your mind powers..
also, I'm pretty sure what you described does exist in the form of a pocket-sized electronic device called a PDA or PIM, it has a stylis that you write on the screen with, and it has handwriting recognition ...if you write slow enough.[/quote]
Please don't condescend - he wrote a valid request which would be very interesting and innovative if implemented... I imagine implementing it would be quite hard though. |
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| mk072653 |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:22 pm |
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Agreed, I can only imagine what the price of a product that did that would be.
Also, while Papersync is cool for those without PDAs, it is very reminiscent of back when I used Schedule + on Windows 98 to print pages compatible with my my DayTimer. It's a useful tool, but PDA syncing is more useful to many. |
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| xzk |
| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:49 pm |
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the ultimate tool would be a small lightweight laptop with Scrybe or a PDA with wifi - then you would be set.
I had a PDA when they first came out, but it wasn't functional enough for me and it never got used. Lack of 'true' internet capability and the windows o/s didn't really give it enough really good features for me to drop my computer and use the PDA as my planner. |
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| Sheffer |
| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:32 pm |
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I really do not see the problem with this idea, I assumed from the beginning
that Papersync would work this way, that was the main reason for me signing
up.
Scan it in and use some OCR to find where the respective days / month / time
is and then OCR the written text. Yes that will be hard and thats why you
also just copy a small picture of the text and save that in say, 8 grayscale
colors png to keep file size small. Then use the image as a fall back if the
ocr:d text is indecipherable.
It's all doable, it just takes time and I believe the scrybe team got a huge amount of other amazing features to put in before this can become reality. |
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