Comments on: How Handwriting Recognition Could Work on the iPad

By: Ante Neo

Ante Neo — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:24:58 +0000

Apple, please give us a handwriting app or support a competition or whatever there is to make app companies make the best hand writing app possible. I’m an old Palm Pilot Grafitti user and still use it on my winmobile with app block recoqnizer. I have a Iphone that I do not use even if it’s the best, I have an iPad that I use every day mostly from my couch but also when I leave office. It would be great if I could make notes with a stylus usibg Grafitti or similar hand writing!!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:49:59 +0000

I love the geeky games and toys the iPad offers - but I just can't justify the cost without having the illusion that I'll actually do work on it.

If I can take notes and replace my everyday notebook at work then I will definitely buy one. Apple, are you listening???

By: Mackenze

Mackenze — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:44:18 +0000

The first thing that I thought of when considering buying an iPad was writing on it. I'm a high tech kind of guy and I work on the Internet. But I still carry a pad of paper to every meeting in 2010. That's nuts!

I'm positive that this will be one of the first killer apps for the iPad and that it will be an area of constant innovation and development.

By: palla ramarao

palla ramarao — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:56:38 +0000

I was really looking for the handwriting feature. I was thinking of using iPad as a slate to write notes in office meetings etc. But after reading your article,it makes me sorrow. Actually is there any device where you can use the tablet like a slate and write notes, diagrams, etc with ease and without complaints. There are other more technology flaws in iPad. Visit the Apple iPad here.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:46:49 +0000

Yes, the missing native handwriting recognition is definately the swing vote. I am infinately faster writing down my appointments into my Outlook calendar while on the run, scheduling 20-30 appointments a day - usually not when I'm at my desk. If I have to mess with scrolling, buttons, and the keyboard, I'll get impatient and just write it on a napkin which is about as useful as a paper calendar nowadays. Furter, it would be sheer perfection if I could jot meeting notes right into it, too. I'm thinking about looking into the Fujitsu Tablet costs. I really hope someone comes up with a handwriting app. That would be incredible! I'm so excited about the battery life as well!

By: hanna

hanna — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:13:01 +0000

I am heartbroken that the iPad will not have handwriting recognition. I am a songwriter and scriptwriter – the very demographic iPad will appeal to. Unlike normal folks who sit down and work, writers have bits of ideas 24/7/365. Even though I keep the MBP running, it’s not the same. Using the computer automatically puts my left brain in charge. I have an iMac27 for recording audio and video, a MacMini for streaming video to my 3 AppleTvs, a MBP that I carry from room to room and of course, my iPhone but I’m still always scribbling ideas on random bits of paper. I have been a die-hard Mac supporter long before iPod and iTunes changed everybody else’s world. I buy every new Apple gadget as soon as it’s out and have been WAITING for a tablet for literally years. I got so desperate I even bought a tabletPC but it was an expensive pain. I’m heartbroken to find out iPad has no HWR. Looks like the only option is the expensive ModBook. So disappointed. We don’t need laptop power, we’ve got laptops. We don’t need camera, iPhone has that. We can even surf the web with game systems or a hacked AppleTV. What we need is Handwriting Recognition for quick ideas, to add notes to recipes or other ebooks, calendars – the list goes on. We will be using iPad on the go, not sitting down at a desk most of the time. Who will use a dock (or even two hands) to jott a quick note? Oh brother.

By: S Landier

S Landier — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:39:59 +0000

Apple's own handwriting recognition (Inkwell) has a poor track-record (read : unusable) and supports very few languages. I reckon that Apple should have a look at VisionObjects' technology, which has already been adopted by the guys who transform MacBooks into MacTablets (can't remember the name, sorry).

By: KG

KG — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:25:41 +0000

I'm still a grafiti/block recognition maven that has always been stylus centric. I loathe Apple's soft kb because so much time is wasted tapping extra buttons and switching screens just to add even a period to text. It's faster and less frusting to carry a pen and some folded paper in my pocket at all times.

Even if the Ipad had great hwr, it would still be too big and too pim deficient for me.

I'll plod on with netbooks and pen and paper until I'm holding my own Dell Mini 5 or Courier in my hands. Although I'm happy with the the wireless experience on my Touch, it's pretty much just a media player and I'll gladly replace it with a smaller nano if a 32gb version is ever released.

By: skyheights

skyheights — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:02:17 +0000

I work in health care, and I want a good tablet for note taking! So, I will not buy a tablet that does not support handwriting (or sketching for that matter). I'm also going to need one a little bit bigger than the iPad. You know, like the size of a piece of paper, please. So, I probably won't be getting an iPad after all. I'll probably end up w/ a Vega or some other Android tablet (doubt I'll go w/ windoze as I like the idea of app-stores). After work, I'd love to sit down and watch some hulu on a decent sized screen. PLZKTHX!

By: IcyFog

IcyFog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:44:02 +0000

No.