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Being a PhD CS student, I find it professionally disappointing that this technology arises mainly for graphic artists where the translation from ink to content
by NotOscarWilde 12y ago
Being a PhD CS student, I find it professionally disappointing that this technology arises mainly for graphic artists where the translation from ink to content is basically dot per dot. Or dot per vector, but in this case already arcs have some internal order that vectorization misses (have characters on a different layer than background, etc).
I understand the targeting -- there's vastly more doodlers (professional or amateur) than scientists with cash in their pocket for gadgets. [1] Generating LaTeX from handwriting [2] is still in the distant future, ebook readers for people with A4 needs have gone stagnant since 2010 (although there is the extremely expensive Sony DPT-S1 [3] ).
The main advances I see in science is making faster use of the technology of yesteryear -- streaming classes and conferences on YouTube, arXiv being near mandatory now in CS, and so forth.
[1]: I am currenly a person in that exact group -- the university where I am a PhD student has a surplus of equipment funds every year. Every December, I am asked whether I want a laptop, a tablet, or anything else (with the implied condition that it should be purchasable in Central Europe, which rules out several products such as the DPT-S1 [3] or the Microsoft Surface). I have so far always declined as there's nothing that I can imagine improving my productivity.
[2]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1443/what-is-the-status-of-generating-latex-from-handwriting-i-e-ocr https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1443/what-is-the-sta... (2010)
[3]: https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/?PID=I:digitalpaper:digitalpaperproductpage https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/?PID=I:digitalpa...
- RBerenguel 12y agoIt's not exactly TeX from handwriting, but the developers at MyScript [1] seem to be doing a pretty good job at parsing basic TeX for notetaking. I met some a few years ago at the MWC and talked a little about TeX "recognition" and well, it got added to their flagship handwriting app. Still far from perfect (won't get you a \mathfrak) but usable enough for taking quick course/lecture/ideas notes. [1]: http://www.myscript.com/ http://www.myscript.com/
- reitanqild 12y agoMyscripts math demo for android, while just a toy calculator [1], really impressed me. With that I can easily and smoothly draw complicated calculations, then draw a square root symbol on top of it and see it recognize it, draw a line underneath and divide the whole thing by something, -no problem. The notepad thingy that was supposed to be a real product was a real disappointment in comparison imo. [1]: It see s to use floats internally and doesn't make any attempt at hiding it. Try sin(360)
- stoolpigeon 12y agoebook readers for people with A4 needs I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you explain?
- riffraff 12y agoreading PDFs and other stuff with a fixed page is a pain on a kindle, it's ok on larger tablets but then those don't have ePaper. Many people would love to be able to read PDF for books, scholar articles and journals in an ereader with a size big enough for an A4 sheet.
- xixixao 12y agoMaybe we shouldn't be using a document format based on a fixed size of a page then... I even know about a good alternative...
- frozenport 12y agoBut then we still have the cramped screen, imagine scrolling between equation A10 and A15 on a Nook GlowLight!