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I think that although handwriting won't be going away for some time, I've come to find that I'm using digital mediums for note-taking more often and it's becomi

I think that although handwriting won't be going away for some time, I've come to find that I'm using digital mediums for note-taking more often and it's becoming more popular (see Apple Pencil, Surface Pro Pen). If this service were coupled to an app that supported writing with a digital pen, it would be more appealing to many; it would mitigate the need to snap a photo, mitigate the need to have paper, and still allow for someone who wants to jot out their ideas by hand to have a digital text copy in the end. Any ideas for going down this route? I mean, taking photos and rendering paper notes to digital has definitely been done multiple times already. This other approach would become a must-buy app for anyone who uses their ipad pro or surface pro for notes.

mlaskin 9y ago
Thanks for commenting! Adding digital handwriting support is a great idea. I actually think other companies do it pretty well, which is why we didn't go down that route. The reason is that they use a different type of algorithm that learns, in part, from the handwriting velocity, and gives you edit access on the go, which is not possible if you've taken the notes in a normal notebook. We decided to start with plain notebook text mainly because it seemed like no one else had solved this problem to our satisfaction yet.
darklajid 9y ago
No. I'm working for a company that offers DMS and OCR services. A big business atm are cheques. I .. don't understand what they're for, consider them weird. But there is a huuge number of places that use them, the US is a part of that for some reason. A lot of those are filled in by hand. Say, you're doing a census project. You send out forms that WILL be filled in by hand. That said, I don't believe in silver bullets here...