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Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 28, 2018 at 04:11 PM
The Wacom Folio (or Slate, if you prefer something slightly cheaper) offers handwriting recognition, and in my experience it’s actually quite good (writing in standard English, at least). I’ve gradually got used to using the pad on its own, and then uploading my scribblings (or drawings) to my iPad whenever I feel like it. The Folio can store quite a few “pages” in its own memory before you have to upload them (I believe the capacity is ca. 100), so you can spend all day writing/scribbling/drawing in your Folio, then transfer them to iPad (and thence to your Wacom Cloud account) whenever is most convenient.
It’s a hybrid solution, but it’s really grown on me. Having said that, if I’d realised Apple was releasing a basic iPad with Pencil support, I wouldn’t have splashed out on the Folio - I’d have saved up for the iPad instead. Although the Folio’s battery life is (unsurprisingly, because it’s not a sophisticated personal computer) vastly greater (several weeks, if you’re not using it all day).
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Hugh
Apr 28, 2018 at 04:14 PM
Maybe I should add that I’ve absolutely no connection with MyScript - other than occasionally buying licences to their products!
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Apr 28, 2018 at 07:01 PM
I am hoping that there is an app that accepts a shorthand sort of thing like the PalmPilot of 20 years ago. I learned the PalmPilot sort of shorthand in a very brief time, and could write very fast with few errors using that system.
Among the apps that I’m going to try on the iPad Pro are GoodNotes, Notability, and Penultimate. Some of the folks who have posted YouTube videos on how they take notes on the iPad have *very good” printing skills, while my natural writing style that evolved during my college years is a combination of cursive and printing.
Posted by satis
Apr 29, 2018 at 01:03 PM
Hugh wrote:
>If you buy an iPad Pro, Notability is OK, and widely used. Goodnotes is
>another iOS application for writing notes. But handwriting-to-text or
>“handwriting recognition” is an as yet imperfect technology (as opposed
>to the pure recording of handwriting on a tablet, which a number of iOS
>note-taking and sketching applications will happily do). As I say above,
>in my opinion the developer MyScript is the leader in the race to
>improve the technology of handwriting recognition.
>
>I’ve used MyScript apps for close-on 15 years, previously on the Mac and
>very recently on the iPad Pro. I’ve tried a few of the available iOS
>handwriting recognition applications released by other developers, and
>MyScript’s iOS note-taking application Nebo is for me the best. MyScript
>has also developed several other related iOS applications: one resolves
>handwritten arithmetic calculations. and another can be used to write
>and convert handwriting to text in other iOS applications.
>
>Just to mention - a markedly less expensive alternative to the iPad Pro
>is the new iPad, which was announced by Apple a few weeks ago. Like the
>iPad Pro it will also work with the Apple Pencil. Presumably it can
>therefore host and support handwriting applications like Notability,
>Goodnotes and Nebo. But I’ve not had the opportunity to test it, and so
>I don’t know whether, when equipped with one of these applications, it
>is as good as the iPad Pro at recording handwriting and converting it to
>text.
Good stuff there. I agree that Myscript’s handwriting transation seems to be the best right now on iOS. FYI a couple of days ago iMore posted a good article on the best notetaking apps for iOS, which discussed some of the iOS apps mentioned:
https://www.imore.com/best-notetaking-handwriting-apps-apple-pencil-ipad
and there was a neat Reddit thread last summer:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/6mgol8/comparing_notability_goodnotes_onenote_nebo/
Posted by bigspud
Apr 30, 2018 at 03:49 AM
a quick shout out for metamoji corp:
the mazec hadwriting input app is really very good. not the same as handwriting in app, but well and truly up there with myscript.
I’ve used it extensively with zoomnotes on ipad. A real contender to goodnotes for function!