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Geek Culture / My new Geek Gadget - Digital Notepad

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BatVink
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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 16:07 Edited at: 26th Jan 2009 16:09
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I'm rather impressed with this one. You just write away on normal paper, clipped to your board. Plug it into your PC later, and it converts your scrawl into a Word Doc (or image, or whatever).

First attempt, after 30 minutes training (typing pre-defined paragraphs)...100% accuracy!



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Mnemonix
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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 16:25
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As I explained to you on MSN, I am officially impressed and attempting to locate the funds to purchase one of these fine devices!



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Van B
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That's pretty neat! Tablets can be embarrasing things, I mean there's no hiding the fact that your a geek if you have a tablet - this might be a bit more practical though - you wouldn't even have to explain it to people.

I best avoid it though, not sure what it would make of the doodles on my notepad .


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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 16:31
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That is pretty groovy, not sure I'd have much use for it myself but that wouldn't stop me buying one if I had the funds.

I thought this was going to be a livescribe at first.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 18:37
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So how's this any better than just scanning the paper with a scanner? Most come with hand-writing recognition software.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 19:28
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This is better because you don't have to manually scan it.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 19:56 Edited at: 26th Jan 2009 19:57
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Quote: "So how's this any better than just scanning the paper with a scanner?"

Once you've tried it, you will appreciate the difference between this and scanning.

It actually records pen-strokes, so you can dismantle the document quickly into different sections.

The gadget has 26 folders with up to 99 pages per folder, and transferring them takes less than a second per page. I've scanned before, and I can tell you it is slow enough to put you off within 2 or 3 pages.

It also doubles up as a mouse/tablet when plugged in. It's not pressure-sensitive, but just fine for normal applications.

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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 20:06
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Also OCR is awful when it comes to handwriting!

I gotta get me one of those!

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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 23:22
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Quote: "Also OCR is awful when it comes to handwriting! "


This uses OCR to convert to documents. 30 minutes training and it hits 100% though.

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David R
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Posted: 26th Jan 2009 23:55 Edited at: 26th Jan 2009 23:56
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What product is this? (Since I assume it isn't LiveScribe)

EDIT: Since there are a lot of products called Digital notepad


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Very cool! How much did it cost?

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Quote: "This uses OCR to convert to documents."


Yeah but surely it uses the stroke information in order to be more accurate, the way PDA's do? That's how I thought they did it anyways.

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you forgot to include the all important link to the site you ordered it from :y

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Posted: 27th Jan 2009 00:56
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Quote: "Yeah but surely it uses the stroke information in order to be more accurate, the way PDA's do? That's how I thought they did it anyways."


Doubtful--- everybody writes differently. It looks to me, from his original, that it has some serious OCR power.


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Quote: "Doubtful--- everybody writes differently. "

Quote: "after 30 minutes training (typing pre-defined paragraphs)"

I would guess that you train the device to learn your handwriting.

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