Acecad DigiMemo OCR software

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Digimemo Handwriting conversion [Posted on 2008-05-30]
Reviews of this product can be found under the same product but listed by Amazon as merely "Digimemo Handwriting...."

I have been using the L2 and this software product for about two months now. Indeed, as the first reviewer put it, "don't expect perfection but do expect a high degree of accuracy." I can also find room for just a little sympathy for the 2nd reviewer that wrote not to waste time with this.

I gave a "demonstration" speech on this product to my local Toastmasters club. Before the speech, I had all in attendance (about 10) write on the L2 "Hello my name is...." followed by their name and anything else they wanted to say. Then, the first half of the speech was an intro to the technologies. For the second part, I attached the L2 to my laptop, asked the club to gather around me and I demonstrated how quickly and easily the upload and conversion took place. For everyone but one person, the recognition was over 90%. However, for one person, even though they had very nice hand writing, it recognized only about 20%. For that person, I definitely wouldn't recommend the device.

However, my own experience is that I am completely amazed by this device. As a corporate manager who is in back-to-back meetings and as a Christian taking notes at my religious functions, I am very pleased with the success of the item. Based on my recommendation, at least 4 personal acquaintances have said they will definitely buy one. What really sells them though, is trying it for themselves, which I'm always willing to let them do. My penmenship is far from wonderful, but not as bad as the jokes about medical doctors. It has really gotten bad since most of what I do is typed on a computer. However, my penmenship has improved some now that I am using the L2--now that I KNOW I can write without having to come back to my desk and transcribe everything into the word processer. (BTW, this software comes with an option to export the converted handwritten document to Microsoft Word as typed text. However, every physical line you write on the pad is converted to paragraph so that after the conversion, line-wrapping is ineffectual. You do have to manually remove the paragraph mark at the end of lines that are within the same paragraph.

I do wish the software had a feature where it would read scanned documents. I have hand written notes from before I bought this thing. I would love to convert them. From what I've found, this is the only product on the market that successfully converts actual cursive. The IRIS product, Readiris Pro 11, claims to be able to recognize hand PRINTING, but the details sound so limiting that I haven't even tried it. I use Readiris Pro 11 only for scanning typeset or laser printed documents.

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