As for actual handwriting recognition, we'd give LG's software a B-.
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Using the S Pen for simple handwriting or sketching was easy.
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The newly upgraded active pen includes an innovative tip design that provides the high accuracy required for flawless handwriting recognition together with unparalleled palm rejection technology that enables a natural pen-on-paper handwriting experience.
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Audi already uses a tiny touchpad in its some of its models to afford fingertip handwriting recognition for entering navigation addresses.
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Bart Baggett, a handwriting expert for the past 25 years, examined the samples and came to some conclusions about each person's personality.
PlayStation and texting need to be balanced out by reading novels, handwriting (for old-fashioned digital dexterity) and playing with other live people if you want your child to develop to be an effective, skill-acquiring, empathetic adult.
But despite my innate aptitude for illegibility, the four handwriting recognition programs we tested had little difficulty translating my jagged scratches into neat, clean, digital type.
The device, first introduced this past February at Mobile World Congress, stands apart from its capacitive rivals thanks primarily to the addition of a Wacom-like digitizer panel optimized for the company's handwriting recognition software and a slew of stylus-specific, pre-loaded apps, like Adobe's Photoshop Touch and Samsung's own S Note.
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Rather than offer a range of templates, the app goes straight for the lined notepad look and takes handwriting-to-text input only.
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So perhaps it was people in this group who recognized that the handwriting is on the wall for the job bank.
And yet, the handwriting is on the wall for capacitive switchgear, too.
Prof Booth added that though the manuscript was not biographically significant, it did have "magical significance" simply for being in the poet's handwriting.
It's worth noting that SuperNote on PadFone 2 is now at version 3.0 and supports multilingual handwriting recognition (which worked well for us), WebStorage cloud syncing and PDF export.
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Indeed, until the mid-15th century, handwriting remained a specialized vocation mostly reserved for the church and the aristocratic classes.
At Drexel University in Philadelphia, for instance, an engineer named Moshe Kam tested handwriting examiners against members of the general public.
They also go a ways toward proving what we've long suspected: that handwriting is a neat, but often unnecessary, feature for most users.
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For example, little proper research has been done on the reliability of handwriting analysis.
For CNN iReport's cultural census project, we collected more than 200 handwriting samples and selected a handful to be analyzed by an expert.
So I recommend that prospective buyers view the CrossPad mainly as a means to archive images of handwritten notes and sketches for convenient storage and searching, rather than as a way to convert lots of handwriting to editable computer text.
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Part of the reason for smART writer's sluggishness is the intense concentration required to get the program to recognize handwriting at all.
What's more, the tech has use outside of robotics and can even be levereged for more secure e-signature verification based on speed and pressure of a user's handwriting.
"The discipline of cursive is excellent for developing fine motor skills, especially in young children, " agrees Mary Brennan, who has her own handwriting business in New York.
For the past week, I've tried using a tool from Targus that breathes digital life into good old handwriting.
The DuoSense pen offers the return of the lost art of handwriting and together with the true multi-touch solution opens up a whole new world of personal choice for the user in deciding how to interact with their computing devices.
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