[dyarosla]

I think that although handwriting won't be going away for some time, I've come to find that I'm using digital mediums for note-taking more often and it's becoming more popular (see Apple Pencil, Surface Pro Pen). If this service were coupled to an app that supported writing with a digital pen, it would be more appealing to many; it would mitigate the need to snap a photo, mitigate the need to have paper, and still allow for someone who wants to jot out their ideas by hand to have a digital text copy in the end. Any ideas for going down this route?

I mean, taking photos and rendering paper notes to digital has definitely been done multiple times already. This other approach would become a must-buy app for anyone who uses their ipad pro or surface pro for notes.

[mlaskin]

Thanks for commenting!

Adding digital handwriting support is a great idea. I actually think other companies do it pretty well, which is why we didn't go down that route. The reason is that they use a different type of algorithm that learns, in part, from the handwriting velocity, and gives you edit access on the go, which is not possible if you've taken the notes in a normal notebook.

We decided to start with plain notebook text mainly because it seemed like no one else had solved this problem to our satisfaction yet.

[darklajid]

No. I'm working for a company that offers DMS and OCR services.

A big business atm are cheques. I .. don't understand what they're for, consider them weird. But there is a huuge number of places that use them, the US is a part of that for some reason.

A lot of those are filled in by hand.

Say, you're doing a census project. You send out forms that WILL be filled in by hand.

That said, I don't believe in silver bullets here...