Re: [Opie] Re: newbie

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:12:53PM +0000, Marc Baaden wrote:
> >> GPE has great promises, and a few advantages already. The most
> >> remarkeable feature IMHO is the best every handwriting recognition
> >> (xstroke). It doesn't only beat anything else I've seen, it outclasses
> >> them.
>
> I might be mistaken, but I think this is completely wrong. As far as
> I remember xstroke only does CHARACTER recognition (eg one by one) and
> not handwriting recognition (eg writing a sentence/command as a whole)
> like eg. Microsoft transcriber. .. If I am wrong, please correct me (in
> this case I would *love* to be wrong ..)

You are right. I was not being clear on the differences. xstroke
recognizes individual characters, but it does it very well _and_ it is
modeless + fullscreen. Ever since I've used it, the Palm-like "writing
areas" of the Opie recognition system hurt me. :)

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