Re: [NTLK] google + character recognition

On 15/04/2007, at 10:31 PM, Mark Ross wrote:
> Odd that they are not including as references the white paper written
> by Apple employees on the how the Newton character recognition system
> works. Any patents they have will expire in 3 or so years.
>
> On Apr 13, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Roman Pixell [GMail] wrote:
>
>> interesting news...
>>
>> http://news.com.com/Google+backs+character-recognition+research/
>> 2100-1032_3-6175136.html
>
> --
> Mark Ross
Newton uses the direction and shape of the strokes as you input them,
I believe, and OCR is more concerned with prewritten words where a
time based vector drawing of the words aren't able to be established.

Regards,
   - Adam Goddard

-- 
This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries
Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/
WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/