From 8c0b9c4652dbd8d71156309d68996f8b1cb94c8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:35:19 -0500 Subject: add more notes from IRC --- 2022/talks/handwritten.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to '2022/talks/handwritten.md') diff --git a/2022/talks/handwritten.md b/2022/talks/handwritten.md index 814ad4d2..57dbdcd1 100644 --- a/2022/talks/handwritten.md +++ b/2022/talks/handwritten.md @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ This talk will introduce to you a simple system to integrate handwritten notes i () - so if there is no graphical information to be captured, I'm faster typing in Org mode than writing by hand. + - Do you have a blog article about that? I own a BOOX Air myself but I can't think of a viable workflow using it with handwriting + OCR on-device. - \-- another potential OCR solution that is FOSS, but supported only on Windows OS - mathpix seems to support OCR now as well: @@ -68,6 +69,23 @@ This talk will introduce to you a simple system to integrate handwritten notes i - [LiveScribe](https://www.amazon.com/Livescribe-Single-Subject-Notebook-4-pack/dp/B001AALJ1I/ref=asc\_df\_B001AALJ1I/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167151358503&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14286771041209503377&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027973&hvtargid=pla-359920653567&psc=1) +- I always love the way Bala records his talks :D +- i read every word +- Apple notes scanning is working very well these days. +- OneNote is super locked-in these days. +- Thank you Prof! +- Lol @ just type out the damn note XD. It's a good point, but I have over a year of handwritten notes that I haven't bothered typing out ;-) +- I have had some success with tesseract and my handwritten notes +- has anyone training such a OCR system to make it more accurate for your handwriting or additional symbols. +- shh I've been using Google Cloud Vision to get the text out of my sketches =) +- wow what a refined video. really solid editing. this is enjoyable to watch +- would it be better to use OCR or to read the notes and use speech-to-text? +- Does it work well with free software, klavul +- hmh, there seems to be plugin to integrate orgmode with xournalpp ( https://gitlab.com/vherrmann/org-xournalpp ) +- I use capture2text , made a small wrapper +- Would it be possible to make a libre software which could detect handwritten notes as does the Boogie Board and run Emacs on it? + - other: people with short-term requirements and who don't care are using great OCR with cloud-based lock-in services. Therefore, there isn't much incentive to create FOSS. + ## Questions and answers - Q: How do you link the notes together so that you could search @@ -109,6 +127,8 @@ This talk will introduce to you a simple system to integrate handwritten notes i Perhaps handwriting is best for non-Roman script. My mother tongue has a script that is not English. - Q: Do you have any ideas about mindmapping and incorporating those notes into your process? I've used nebo and other tools, but wish I had a better way of extracting key words. - A: I have used mindmapping which is hierarchical, in fact I use something called function maps. Just like org-roam and interacting relationships. All of this I've been drawing on my laptop screen. All of this helps me. I don't digitally convert it. It helps me and is a lot easier. When I need to add to it I can do so. I find that doing it on a device and retaining it without conversion is best. Converting does not help me at all. YOu can select it, with a lasso select. Those things can be done. I like it to be that way. Then I link it into org mode. +- Q: Bala, sorry to join late to the party, you might have answer. Do you train your own OCR? + [[!inline pages="internal(2022/info/handwritten-after)" raw="yes"]] -- cgit v1.2.3