However, due to my advanced #PIM processes, I rarely write things down on #paper.
I'd love to do so much more if there would be a great #FOSS solution for offline #handwriting#OCR. That would be a great investment by the #stationery industry! 🤔
It still offers better solutions compared to my #Boox#NoteAir#eink tablet.
I forgot one important #pen and so I had to re-do the photographs: my LAMY AL-star black EMR Stylus with a felt tip which I use on my #BOOX#NoteAir#eink tablet.
@publicvoit You mentioned owning a #Boox eink tablet. So do I and in my case, the OCR works very well (both on German and English). This tells me, that the technology exists. It's just a question of implementing it.
I use two notebooks, one on my desk and a pocket one on the go. Once every few days I go over my notes and add the important stuff to my TiddlyWiki. But I would really like an open source workflow that could handle all notes including digitizing and OCR.
Yes, the tech exists in general. However, as long as I can't apply it to any handwritten paper, it's not there yet. Furthermore, I'd like to have this as FOSS so that it can be included in any workflow possible.
@gisiger Second, Boox might take advantage of knowing the history of the handwritten letters, turning it into an online OCR process or at least a hybrid one.
This feature doesn't work for me because it replaces the original handwriting and is not adding a transparent OCR layer as typical OCR processes do with printed material.
Furthermore, if the OCR makes mistakes, there is no sane error correcting and re-try mechanism.
For me, this is a demo feature not something I want to use.
@publicvoit a true beauty, it looks amazing. Gotta try it the next time I am at a stationary store.
I second the need for a foss ocr solution. There is a plugin for obsidian on desktop, it uses a python library which I want to try. But, there is nothing really accessible yet.
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