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iOS 14 Features New OCR Capabilities That Will Convert Handwritten Text From Apple Pencil Into Typed Text

This sounds like a compelling innovation. But none of it will be functional until Apple fixes the horrible line and letter drawing functionality of Apple Pencil within Notes. Compared with an app like Notability, the handwriting engine for Apple Pencil in iPadOS is chicken scratch. It's so bad it's embarrassing. It actually makes your handwriting look worse than it actually is. There's no fluidity, and letters don't finish the way you draw them, they are rounded off into weird approximations. It doesn't feel premium or Apple-like at all. They can and should do better in iPadOS 14.
 
cmaier said:
If only my handwriting wasn’t complete **** :)
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Same here. I remember a teacher asked me to write essays in block letters, so it was easier for her to read my handwriting. I'm confident machine learning will be able to figure out what I'm trying to write on the iPad... Don't have a pencil yet, but I'd consider buying it for that purpose
 
It says iOS 14 not iPad iOS does that mean we are finally getting Apple Pencil support for the iPhone???
 
sidewinder3000 said:
This sounds like a compelling innovation. But none of it will be functional until Apple fixes the horrible line and letter drawing functionality of Apple Pencil within Notes. Compared with an app like Notability, the handwriting engine for Apple Pencil in iPadOS is chicken scratch. It's so bad it's embarrassing. It actually makes your handwriting look worse than it actually is. There's no fluidity, and letters don't finish the way you draw them, they are rounded off into weird approximations. It doesn't feel premium or Apple-like at all. They can and should do better in iPadOS 14.
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i not promoting nebo as previous people said to me. But if we have default before i dont have to search internet, ask apple staff what da best for my situation.
 
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niji said:
this may well be the feature that, along with full trackpad support, is able to not just prompt me to finally think i can try to use an iPad for my work, but actually might be more useful than a keyboarded-MacBook.
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Trackpad and OCR with pencil are sort of mutually exclusive. As in, you could use one or the other, at a time. I guess if note-taking is the critical use case which determines what computer gets gets engaged, I still am not entirely sure if this would be good enough for the awful scrawls I scribe during meetings. I really need to discover a good workflow here. But iPad does look closer to feeling it might work.
 
himanshumodi said:
Trackpad and OCR with pencil are sort of mutually exclusive. As in, you could use one or the other, at a time. I guess if note-taking is the critical use case which determines what computer gets gets engaged, I still am not entirely sure if this would be good enough for the awful scrawls I scribe during meetings. I really need to discover a good workflow here. But iPad does look closer to feeling it might work.
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last time thinking using ipaq since those era have pen, today we have ipad and the day i bought to use the same idea with official note,one note and paid nebo. I would said we need something good for meeting . I don't want to open a keyboard on meeting, i just want to take note , take picture what been discuss as quickly as possible without other people thinking its dam weird. If we have something like print screen the ipad and wifi link to projector it would be the best but yet still people using old projector hdmi and it kinda hassle. I even think to buy apple tv just for that idea .
 
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last time thinking using ipaq since those era have pen, today we have ipad and the day i bought to use the same idea with official note,one note and paid nebo. I would said we need something good for meeting . I don't want to open a keyboard on meeting, i just want to take note , take picture what been discuss as quickly as possible without other people thinking its dam weird. If we have something like print screen the ipad and wifi link to projector it would be the best but yet still people using old projector hdmi and it kinda hassle. I even think to buy apple tv just for that idea .
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hi

1 exactly. handwritten quick notes into iPad.

2 i also actually purchased an apple TV a few years ago (actually it was 4 years ago) just to be able to do what you wrote: bypass RGB connection from Mac directly to a video monitor. very quick to switch users and really collaborate on presentations.
 
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Looks cool but i don't use Apple pencil....

Just went out like a light that one did.
 
I'm very excited for iOS 14. It sounds like it might finally give the iPad the software it needs to support its incredible hardware.
 
Excellent, I've got a couple of perfect use cases for our vertical/enterprise product(s). Between this and - what sounds like - much improved external KB/TP support (at least for Apple's ...), iPadOS 14 is going to offer some major improvements (and nice continued iPad specific features as it moves away from iOS).
 
I don't really have a great use for this, but if this could somehow work to convert to handwritten math to LaTeX then that would be insanely awesome.
 
Bringing back technology from the 90s and tech which almost every phablet had before the iPhone and iPad. Way to go, Apple! What's next, bringing back the floppy?
 
This better be close to flawless OCR, or have a great learning function, otherwise after it fails a couple times most will stop using it and never try it again.

Also, beyond simple replies I can’t imagine why you’d want to hand write a message when a keyboard, or even Siri, would be much faster / efficient.
 
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glindon said:
This better be close to flawless OCR, or have a great learning function, otherwise after it fails a couple times most will stop using it and never try it again.

Also, beyond simple replies I can’t imagine why you’d want to hand write a message when a keyboard, or even Siri, would be much faster / efficient.
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A lot of people use ipads in their hands in place of paper. I’ve seen contstruction people, doctors, etc. walking around with them. It isn’t more efficient to use a keyboard when you have to put the ipad down, unfold a case, potentially pair a keyboard, etc.
 
subjonas said:
Maybe as a bonus, people will rediscover the lost art of penmanship.
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Indeed! Even without OCR.

I have started taking working notes with my iPad (the entry level, with Pencil 1 plus a magnet holder) and I am finding it surprisingly useful. Now and then I discover a new gesture - typical Apple - and, so far, so good.

I think I'd still like to have an infinite canvas for some diagraming, but the infinite vertical scroll, plus the ability to stretch in the middle, and loop / move / duplicate / color objects is very useful.
 
Only eight years after the competition but better late than never. Since it's for iOS, does that mean pen support is coming to iPhones?
 
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