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Tablet PC Rorschach Inkblot Test

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the book-is-fee dept.

LPH writes "ESC Technologies just put up a funny series of images that they ran through the Tablet PC recognition software." Perhaps these tablets need a "doodle" setting.

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  1. handwriting recognition... by zsmooth · · Score: 5, Informative

    The site's /.'ed so I haven't seen the pictures, but I tried out one of the tablet PC's at CompUSA yesterday and I was totally blown away by how good the handwriting recognition was. I scribbled down a few notes as I would on paper, and when I converted it to text it was perfect. I tried like 10 times and there was only 1 very understandable mistake (a humad transcribing what I had written probably would have thought the same thing.)

    As far as "it needs a doodle setting", the apps that I used saved things as digital ink by default, and only converted to text when you specifically told it to.

  2. Mirrored Images by redink1 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Mirrored Images. I think this is all but the last one, which was a bear if I remember correctly.

    Linking to a PHP forum right on the Slashdot main page isn't generally a good idea... :)

  3. Re:This article (-1 Troll) by CerebusUS · · Score: 4, Informative

    Agreed. After finally getting to see the images from the slashdotted article, I can tell that what they did was:

    a) doodle.

    b) select the doodle

    c) tell the handwriting engine to try to recognize their doodle as text.

    d) laugh when it can't

    Did you really expect to be able to draw a picture of a book and have it come back as the text "book?" What's next? Computer pictionary?