I have seen a few threads lately looking for handwriting note taking apps and this got me wondering about handwriting recognition on my tablet. Having tried a few I can thoroughly recommend Diopen Handwriting and Keyboard. It is quite accurate and works just as well with either my Acase stylus or finger. Diopen supports gestures for inserting a space, deleting, splitting and joining words and correction. Give it a go.
Oh, and yes I wrote this post with it
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Forgive me if this feature already existed on the Eee Pad TF, but I think I accidentally enabled predictive text.
I found out that Swype is running beta keyboards for the Android system so I downloaded a Swype keyboard from the web and installed it to my TF. I then received a notice saying that my screen size is not supported.
However, today I was just swiping across the screen and Swype began to work.
Either way, if the TF doesn't have this native capability, and you would like predictive text technology, go to http://beta.swype.com/ and follow the instructions.
Your android device will say the screen is unsupported, but you may get lucky like me.
Btw, Swype is great and works better than i expected.
denverseven said:
Forgive me if this feature already existed on the Eee Pad TF, but I think I accidentally enabled predictive text.
I found out that Swype is running beta keyboards for the Android system so I downloaded a Swype keyboard from the web and installed it to my TF. I then received a notice saying that my screen size is not supported.
However, today I was just swiping across the screen and Swype began to work.
Either way, if the TF doesn't have this native capability, and you would like predictive text technology, go to http://beta.swype.com/ and follow the instructions.
Your android device will say the screen is unsupported, but you may get lucky like me.
Btw, Swype is great and works better than i expected.
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Swype like technology is already installed with stock keyboard.
It really sucks at predicting words though. Especially compared to the Swype I have on my Droid X.
I agree the predictive text on the Asus "swype" suck. Not to mention it takes a lot more effort to "swype" a keyboard as wide as the Asus virtual keyboard.
Kilmar said:
I agree the predictive text on the Asus "swype" suck. Not to mention it takes a lot more effort to "swype" a keyboard as wide as the Asus virtual keyboard.
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I agree. I am much faster when I type on the virtual keyboard instead of drag ala swype.
I have reset my unit to use the standard Honeycomb keyboard since the Asus keyboard seems to miss key strokes.
I wish the stock android keyboard has numbers like the asus KB. It would speed things up a bit.
I was looking for a good simple notetaking program that accepted handwriting input. Theres some character recognition keyboards, but for those who have decent confidence in their legibility should check out Handrite ( https://market.android.com/details?id=my.handrite&feature=search_result )
It doesn't convert the handwriting to text, it just shrinks and justifies it. You can use normal input from a keyboard too. Saves/shares as png's. Not for everyone but cool imo.
Thanks for sharing
bzh2 said:
I was looking for a good simple notetaking program that accepted handwriting input. Theres some character recognition keyboards, but for those who have decent confidence in their legibility should check out Handrite ( https://market.android.com/details?id=my.handrite&feature=search_result )
It doesn't convert the handwriting to text, it just shrinks and justifies it. You can use normal input from a keyboard too. Saves/shares as png's. Not for everyone but cool imo.
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You might want to check out Genial Writing and TabNotes as well.
I just found Freenote (note everything) by flyable. It has an awesome implementation of handwriting, sketching, and keyboard input. There are even different brushes for sketching!
There's still room for improvement. It could have notebook format like tabnotes, and a way to sync easily to a computer would be nice as well. Overall, however, this is the best implementation I've seen yet.
Yeah I used this software when I just had my TF to make notes during a classical training.
Worked pretty good, I couldnt manage to detect handwriting but the mix between writing, typing and drawing on the same sheet is lovely.
Just tried this, its awesome thanks.
a good alternative is Handrite, it does a similar job, it seems very good with drawing, keyboard and handwriting input and changeable paper backgrounds.
Hello
A couple of questions about how handwriting recognition works for the 10.1:
i) Is it available for all apps, i.e. handwriting recognition can be selected for any app which has keyboard input?
ii) Assuming your handwriting isn't a scrawl, how good is the recognition, (e.g. how does it compare to Windows 7/8 tablets)?
Thanks for any feedback
nomadic11 said:
Hello
A couple of questions about how handwriting recognition works for the 10.1:
i) Is it available for all apps, i.e. handwriitng recognition can be selected for any app which has keyboard input?
ii) Assuming your handwriting isn't a scrawl, how good is the recogition, (e.g. how does it compare to Windows 7/8 tablets)?
Thanks for any feedback
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Yes it can be enabled in any app that support kekeyboard input, and comparing it to other w8/7 tablets i havent tried them but handwriting recognition works perfect, fast and never faild to recognize my writing also i have a bad hand writing
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I can be pretty slack with my handwriting and it works pretty good with a 95% accuracy rate. The 5% it doesn't, I'd have trouble reading if I hadn't wrote it then and there...
This doesn't really help the OP, but I thought I might as well stick my question under the same header.
In the keyboard setting is a tick box for "change to handwriting recognition when Spen is detected" and I'm wondering how it's implemented as I have not noticed anything happening. I always have to change the keyboard manually. Wether I remove the pen or use my spare one. Thanks.
schnurrbidurr said:
This doesn't really help the OP, but I thought I might as well stick my question under the same header.
In the keyboard setting is a tick box for "change to handwriting recognition when Spen is detected" and I'm wondering how it's implemented as I have not noticed anything happening. I always have to change the keyboard manually. Wether I remove the pen or use my spare one. Thanks.
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I've tried and it somewhat works... but with varying results.
It surely doesn't work instantly (as one would expect). That is, if you have your keyboard out and you pull out the pen the keyboard doesn't change automatically and instantly from "typing mode" to "handwriting mode".
In a simple text editor (as Jota text editor) it works this way: if you have the pen out and you tap on the note as to insert new text, the type of keyboard is hw recognition. Then you put the pen in its slot (the keyboard stays out and doesn't change), close the keyboard (the keyboard disappears) re-tap on the note to write something else and the keyboard popping out is now the classical typing keyboard. The reverse also works.
In some other apps this behavior is not replicable. Maybe because these other apps "remember" (in the cache?) the last type of keyboard used and this overwrites Samsung "pen-detection" function.
Anyway there's a wonderful (and genial) app that automatically and instantly changes the keyboard (i.e. from the samsung stock one to another choosen one, i.e. some keyboard more advanced for traditional typing) with the pen's pulled out or in. It's called SPenBoard Switcher. The link is here.
(Unfortunately it's necessary to have a rooted device to install it...)
Thanks for your explanation. I didn't expect it to work instantly, I just never noticed it doing anything at all. But then again, I rarely use the attached pen, but one of those bigger ones. I will definitely give the suggested app a go.
hello, how come swipe does not work for symbolic and numeric keys?
I also found that swpie does not work when running two apps side by side. Is this a bug?
Which two apps, which one is active and what style of keyboard are you using at the time?
As for symbols, I've never done swiping when using symbols so I have no idea. My first reaction to your initial question was "Is swipe using symbols even supposed to work at all? Given that swipe is a form of predictive text input how would the keyboard predict anything if you're not spelling words since it's all symbols?"
I can't use Swpie on numeric keys as well. Why swipe needs to be predictive? I use Samsung's virtual keyboard which came with the Note Pro? I don't remember the two apps. Will let you know latter.
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I can't use Swpie on numeric keys as well. Why swipe needs to be predictive? I use Samsung's virtual keyboard which came with the Note Pro? I don't remember the two apps. Will let you know latter.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here because I primarily use stock keyboards on my Nexus 4 and this tablet. It's been a few months since I've used other keyboards such as Swiftkey which also supports swipe input . . . In any event my understanding of swipe input based on the keyboards that I have used is this: the keyboard application analyzes the locations that your finger is stopping at and the directions in which your finger moves from each stopping point in order to predict the word that you are attempting to spell. The word that you are attempting to spell has to be in the dictionary of the language you have the keyboard application set to. If it isn't, the keyboard will not recognize the word and will therefore not predict it.
As an example; on both my phone and my Note Pro I have the keyboard language is set to English US. If I attempt to swipe the letters X-Y-L-E-C on the keyboard, which is just jibberish and not a real word in the english dictionary, the keyboard will not recognize this swipe pattern as a word and will attempt to predict something completely different (my tablet writes the word "clef" instead).
So what I'm saying is, how would the keyboard application know to string together a particular order of special characters?
Your answer is likely to be that it should know based upon where you pause with your fingers and you're right except that this isn't exactly how swipe was designed. Swipe is meant to allow you to minimize how long you need to pause. If you start at the letter T, swipe down rapidly to H and rapidly change direction towards E you need not stop exactly on the E key in order to have the keyboard predict the word "THE".
Thanks. I am using the stock Samsung virtual keyboard (US English) that came with the PRO 12.2. Trying to input things like muzzy996 using swipe does not work.
Yeah, it's working as intended.
What irritates me about the stock keyboard is unlike Swiftkey it does not seem to allow for addition of a word into the dictionary easily and there is no obvious way to manage the dictionary.
This is really bothersome for me because in my writing for work I often use technical terms that are not in the default dictionary and I use these terms frequently in documents or emails. The predictive nature of the keyboard does not seem to learn my frequently typed words well at all.
I've just switched back to Swiftkey and will probably try using that for a bit to see if I like it more than the stock keyboard.
Which version of SwiftKey of you use? Mine is SwiftKey Tablet 4.4.6.275. Swipe (called flow in SwiftKey) does not work. It seems that they have version 4. Worth to upgrade?
I was using version 4.4.6.275. I believe they unified versions now, I'm not using the one for tablets (which I believe is now marked as legacy in the play store). In any case I have switched back to stock. SwiftKey is buggy when multi window is used. Often times the keyboard vanishes when typing in a window. Hopefully they fix this but I'm not sure when they will, I see posts about it in their support website that are a few months old.
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