Handwriting recognition Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

IRISNotes 2 is like a cheap version of Livescribe minus the special paper

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 23rd, 2012)

Companies have been trying for years to make it easy for users to write on a standard notepad and capture that text in a digital format. I.R.I.S., a company that specializes in optical character recognition software, is back at it again with its new IRISNotes 2 lineup of digital pens. The ...

Evernote buys Penultimate app developer Cocoa Box

by Steven Sande (May 7th, 2012)

Evernote is on the move, reporting a US$70 million financing round last week and plans to "grow its user base in new regions, expand its offering into new verticals and enable the company to make strategic acquisitions." One of those strategic acquisitions was just announced -- Evernote has ...

PhatPad giveaway, just in time for the holidays

by Steven Sande (Dec 22nd, 2010)

TUAW recently published a review of PhatPad, a new and very useful note-taking app for the iPad. Among the unique and useful features of PhatPad are handwriting recognition for converting handwritten notes to digital text; a shape recognizer for turning your hand-drawn circles, rectangles and ...

Livescribe for Mac gets handwriting recognition thanks to Vision Objects

by Steven Sande (Jul 27th, 2009)

When it comes to cool tools for the Mac, the Livescribe Pulse smartpen is one of the most innovative. It's a pen that works with special dot paper to capture your handwriting and drawings, and links what you write to what you hear since it also records every word within earshot. All of that ...

Apple to include Chinese handwriting recognition in iPhone 2.0

by Cory Bohon (May 5th, 2008)

One of our tipsters, Kenneth, pointed us to a Chinese web page (Google translation) showing what appears to be an iPhone running some sort of handwriting recognition geared especially for Chinese characters. According to the post, this is how Apple will integrate Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) ...

Worldwide Newton Conference begins today

by Dave Caolo (Jan 13th, 2006)

The Macworld Expo is coming to a close in San Francisco, but that doesn't mean that the fun is over. The Worldwide Newton Conference begins three days of workshops, information sessions and keynote speeches today. Scheduled activities include a workshop on creating Newton fonts, an update on ...