[malloreon]

I was really hoping this article would end with the author revealing the Livescribe pen could expand Gregg shorthand written with it into standard characters on a computer.

[pbhjpbhj]

It would have to be a author-guided OCR though as the same symbols can represent different words.

[eru]

You can probably get pretty far with machine learning.

[dllthomas]

Doesn't this have audio?

[varkson]

Wait so that wasn't the point of using it? The author mentions custom OCR so I assumed he was using some sort of Gregg OCR solution.

[sp332]

Does he mention a custom one? I just saw this part: But it doesn’t work for me, I explain, because even though I’m recording this interview with the latest model Sky wifi smartpen, I’m taking notes using a 19th Century technology called Gregg shorthand.