I often take photos of textual signs for use later. Take it to the next level: OCR text from the built-in cameras. A friend suggested OCR from live video was ev

I often take photos of textual signs for use later. Take it to the next level: OCR text from the built-in cameras. A friend suggested OCR from live video was even possible (on an iPhone!) My vision was being able to enter text by scribbling something on a napkin, and OCR'ing the text in. Another cool method is Dan Bricklin's Note Taker (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997264 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997264) Just need to add OCR. Now, my experiments with OCR algorithms didn't work too well. Apparently the training data is the most important component. Handwriting recognition is also possible, but still images lack the very useful stroke info.