The student was definitely not thinking of a scanner because he wanted
to have something very light/portable. (not even a laptop was good for
this purpose). I was advised to look at the webpage: www.charactell.com
It indicates that SoftWriting is the only product available which allows
you to convert handwritten notes into computer files. It looks like
scanner with special OCR is the only solution to the problem.
By the way, what is the name of a handwriting confirmation tool?
Regards, Ekaterina
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Doherty [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 June 2004 14:58
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Infra-red device to transfer handwriting into PDF?
Can you say a bit more about what infrared device actually does?
I can only imagine that the student is thinking of a scanner that will
later transfer images to a PC equipped with recognition software or is
thinking of a handwriting confirmation tool, which is usually used to
authenticate signatures and doesn't convert writing to text. Give us
more clues, this is interesting.
Regards, Bernard
Bernard Doherty
Assessor
East Anglia Regional ACCESS Centre
Anglia Polytechnic University
East Road
Cambridge CB1 1PT
01223 363271 x2534
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----- Original Message -----
From: E.Barakhta <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 3:25 PM
Subject: Infra-red device to transfer handwriting into
PDF?
Hi everyone,
there is a student who is looking for a device that
would transfer his hand-writing into electronic text. It has to be
light/portable as he intends to attend tutorials with it. He knows
everything about pocket PC, tablet PC and Logitec mouse. For different
reasons these devices do not apply. He heard about some sort of
infra-red device that can be attached to the standard paper and the
text that you write with a standard pen is then transfered into
electronic format. He does not remember the name of a manufacturer or
something that might help. Do you have any idea what that might be?
Thanks a lot.
Ekaterina Barakhta
Development Officer
CATER
Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
