From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 14:53:23 CDT
Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:
> If we are considering a scenario in which someone takes shorthand
> notes at a meeting and transcribes them later, interchange between
> computers is likely to be required. If this process is to be
> automated, a sensible way to do so would be for the minute-taker to
> write shorthand on to a hand-held computer's screen. This data would
> then need to be transferred to a desktop or networked machine for
> transcription and further editing. The most processing-efficient way
> to do so might be to transfer images, but that would be a lot of data
> for a record of an entire meeting, so for bandwidth efficiency the
> hand-held computer should analyse the shorthand and transfer the
> shorthand text in some kind of encoded form.
Is this a realistic scenario? (This is not a rhetorical question; I
really want to know.)
If this sort of workflow actually happens, or would if the encoding were
there, then that might constitute a valid use case for encoding
shorthand. But as far as I know, accurate handwriting analysis of
shorthand or other "normal" penmanship (not Palm Graffiti or a similar
scheme) by commonly available handhelds is not up to this challenge. I
may be wrong.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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