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by bewe42 3085 days ago
wow, I never heard of this Livescribe pen. It looks amazing, How well does it work? I love to scribble on paper but refrained from it as I want my notes in digital form and scanning or something like that would be too much hassle.

I always wanted to build something better for taking notes (many ideas from social, to comparing notes etc.), I think that could be very useful.

I wish at least the Kindle had an API to get my highlights out.

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The notes are scanned as an image, so everything depends on your handwriting. The image looks exactly like what you typed on the notebook. The scanning/OCR process to extract the text out depends on your handwriting. My handwriting is pretty bad, but I get 80-90% accuracy in the OCR