reMarkable Paper Tablet

Posted by Hugh
May 24, 2017 at 11:05 AM

Paul Korm wrote:
Bill—save your pennies for a “real” computer that isn’t an island,
>and get that iPad Pro + Pencil you know is what you really want.

Yes, indeedy. I have the same ambition, and hope to satisfy it in the next few months (either with a “remaindered” first-generation Pro, or with a new second-generation one, rumoured to be launched very soon. I hope to use it primarily for proof-reading, so avoiding having to lug around a big pile of drafts…)

On OCR-ing handwriting, and the reluctance of the creators of the device in question to allow it to be used for this technology (yet). It does seem to me that they’re probably wise. In development terms, handwriting machine-recognition on “pro-sumer” tablets appears to be ten to fifteen years behind voice recognition. Enough for search with a sufficiently powerful tablet like the iPad Pro, and enough, probably, for the sort of handwriting-to-text functionality that MyScript Nebo can now successfully carry out on the iPad Pro and MS Surface Pro 4, but no more. Given the research publicised within the last eighteen months suggesting the superiority of handwriting over typing for brain engagement, I’m itching for faster development. But there’s little or no evidence of it yet.