OCR Handwriting Recognition - Multiple Lines Of Writing

I have had much success with recognising multiple lines of handwriting using
the tablet SDK (VB.NET), except for it recognising a new line/paragraph -
the text is always returned as one continuous paragraph.

Does anybody know if there is a way to get the recogniser to acknowledge the
end of a line of writing and translate it as a carriage return?

Any help appreciated,

Jonathan

Hey Jonathan are you talking about using the Divider object to divide the
ink into elements such as paragraph, line, segment, and drawing? Or are you
talking about just using a recognizer context to recognize several lines of
text?

Using the Divider object (and setting the lineheight) will allow you to
analyze the structure of the ink and create your own lines and paragraphs of
recognized text.

--
Josh Einstein
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 2.0 - Try it free for 14 days
www.tabletoutlook.com

"Jonathan Wareham" <JonathanW@CooperParry.com> wrote in message
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>I have had much success with recognising multiple lines of handwriting
>using
> the tablet SDK (VB.NET), except for it recognising a new line/paragraph -
> the text is always returned as one continuous paragraph.
>
> Does anybody know if there is a way to get the recogniser to acknowledge
> the
> end of a line of writing and translate it as a carriage return?
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Jonathan
>
>

Hi Josh, thanks for the reply.

Currently I am just using the recognizer context to recognize several lines
of handwriting which as I say is working fine other than that it is all
returned as one continous paragraph.  Are you saying that what I need to do
is first use the Divider object to split the ink into sections (paragraphs),
and then use the recognizer context on each section?

Thanks,

Jonathan

"Josh Einstein" <josheinstein@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Jonathan are you talking about using the Divider object to divide the
> ink into elements such as paragraph, line, segment, and drawing? Or are
you
> talking about just using a recognizer context to recognize several lines
of
> text?
>
> Using the Divider object (and setting the lineheight) will allow you to
> analyze the structure of the ink and create your own lines and paragraphs
of
> recognized text.
>
> --
> Josh Einstein
> Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 2.0 - Try it free for 14 days
> www.tabletoutlook.com
>
> "Jonathan Wareham" <JonathanW@CooperParry.com> wrote in message
> news:%23yr4ZYy2FHA.2816@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... 
line/paragraph - 
>
>

Ah, yes that is what you would need to do. The recognizer context will not
perform this division for you by itself.

Depending on your needs, you might find the Agilix Infinotes controls to be
to your liking. There is a control called "Note" that is a mini journal but
without support for flags, pictures, mixed text, etc. You can get those
features by upgrading to Infinotes Pro which costs I think $300 at the time
of this writing. www.infinotes.com

Anyhow, Infinotes does background analysis for you and breaks the ink into
wrapped objects that represent the ink division results. So you could
enumerate a document with a foreach, looking for InkParagraphElement and
InkLineElement, etc without having to use the analysis api yourself.

However, if you want to do the analysis yourself (it's fun but takes some
work), you can look at "About Ink Analysis with the Divider Object" topic in
the SDK index.

--
Josh Einstein
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 2.0 - Try it free for 14 days
www.tabletoutlook.com


"Jonathan Wareham" <JonathanW@CooperParry.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Josh, thanks for the reply.
>
> Currently I am just using the recognizer context to recognize several
> lines
> of handwriting which as I say is working fine other than that it is all
> returned as one continous paragraph.  Are you saying that what I need to
> do
> is first use the Divider object to split the ink into sections
> (paragraphs),
> and then use the recognizer context on each section?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
> "Josh Einstein" <josheinstein@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u5e2lwz2FHA.744@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... 
> you 
> of 
> of 
> line/paragraph - 
>
>