On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "chris" == chris (fool) mccraw <[email protected]> writes: > > chris> unless your copier is smarter than any copier i've ever met > chris> (and i do use a 6-month-old $80,000 copier daily. it's not as > chris> smart as it'd need to be to do what you want), [...] > > I want a copier that can scan a handwritten "E=mc^2" (or other > arbitrary archane formulae) and then creates a document that explains > to me what it means to arbitrary levels of detail. Conform, world, > conform!
Bah -- using paper is *so* '90's ;) My tablet had no issues interpreting my scrawled out "E=mc^2" (ok, I did specify the carrot, and this was stroke identification, rather than straight-up image recognition, so it was a bit easier) and wolframalpha did the rest: http://www17.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=E%3Dmc%5E2 I was really expecting mathworld-level of detail though, so I'm a bit dissapointed. Maybe that level of detail is still pending for physical formulae, or perhaps it's waiting on a general theory of relativity ;) For the linux relation... I was using CellWriter, which is nice and useful, but not as convenient as either the MS handwriting app, or ShapeWriter -- http://shapewriter.com. Does anyone know of better pen-based input mechanisms for linux, or does anyone have interest in working on such a beast? --Rogan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
