From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 14 2004 - 07:35:48 PST
You can get an idea of what the Newt is looking for in
print recognition if you ask the Newt nicely.
From Notepad, selece the "A" in the lower left hand
corner and select Preferences. From the next window,
select Options. Then click on the "Cursive" Button
(yeah, I know, but you need this to get the Newt to
tell you how to make the letters)
From this window select Options again and from the
pop-up select Letter Shapes.
From here, you can fine tune the Newt to recognize
your particular writing style or if you click on the
letter at the top of the screen (after you've selected
the problem letter) it will draw the letter. Observe
how the Newt draws the letter. If you draw the letter
(after you return back to printed mode) in the same
manner as the Newt did, you will improve the accuracy
by quite a bit!
I don't know if selecting the letter drawing style in
cursive will affect the print recognizer, but I did it
anyway...besides, it's interesting to go through all
the characters and see exactly how the Newt does
it...All I gotta say is that the Nuns from my 1st and
2nd grade writing class would have had a fit if they
would have seen how the Newt draws some of it's
letters!
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
--- "Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes"
<marcus.magalhaes_at_vlinfo.com.br> wrote:
>
> Got the root of my problem. Me and my girlfriend
> write a capital "e" in
> the same way: first, we draw the upper horizontal,
> vertical and lower
> horizontal traces, in a single line (like a squared,
> right angled "c"),
> then we do a trace in the middle.
>
> This way, no matter how hard you try, you can''t
> have the letter
> properly recognized.
>
> If, instead, you starting writting the vertical and
> lower horizontal
> traces, like an "L", then drawing the other
> horizontal traces (the
> order didn't affect my error rates), than the
> letter recognized fine.
=====
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