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I'm hoping to add some rough OCR to allow searching in the future. In the meantime, if you turn off pressure sensitivity (Pen menu -> Custom Pen), you'll get

by pbsurf 8y ago

I'm hoping to add some rough OCR to allow searching in the future. In the meantime, if you turn off pressure sensitivity (Pen menu -> Custom Pen), you'll get raw strokes in the SVG instead of filled paths.

joe_the_user 8y ago
Even inaccurate OCR could be cool if it appeared on separate, correctable pane.
akavel 8y ago
Oh, cool, didn't think of it! On to different projects now, but maybe some day... if you don't do it earlier yourself ;) (Though I actually like the pressure sensitivity feature very much...) Also, in case you'd come back to this reply at some point in future: one feature I'd also love (I think I even wrote an email to you about it at the time) would be easy pasting of images into the document, and a "knife" tool, which would allow cutting them to parts along drawn lines. (And then moving and processing them separately.) I don't remember what exact use case I had for this, but I remember missing it badly. Ah, and there was some problem with not being able to easily paste links into the document purely with stylus, i.e. without reaching for keyboard. I used Write once for writing a journal from a trip, with photos, and I think I might have had to edit the raw HTML/SVG to add links from thumbnails to full photos, or something like this.
- ramses0 8y ago
  For me, this would be perfect a perfect use for removing tablature from some guitar sheet music: https://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-pagepreviews/HL_DDS_0000000000141683.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-pagepreviews/HL_DDS_0000... ...basically be able to slice the above image into various rows, and delete the "numbers" part, but keep + rearrange the "music" part. Seems like the ability to paste / rotate an image and then add in a "razer-slicer" set perpendicular to page or matching the image rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SuHTHoRd0&t=1m25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SuHTHoRd0&t=1m25s It's a relatively common operation (even for text, maybe even especially for lined text) giving you the option to write single-space (or double-space) and then magically have extra room to take notes, edit, etc, then later remove those edits. Actually it'd be very similar to "folding" handwritten documents (in the code-folding sense).
mkl 8y ago
Other note-taking tools generally do it by breaking strokes into lots of little line segments, each with a different width coming from the pressure. It works pretty well, and if the program stores the pressure-location data, the stroke width can be adjusted later. I do this all the time in Squid on Android, and have extracted stroke data from PDFs it exports.

by pbsurf 8y ago

joe_the_user 8y ago

Even inaccurate OCR could be cool if it appeared on separate, correctable pane.

akavel 8y ago

Oh, cool, didn't think of it! On to different projects now, but maybe some day... if you don't do it earlier yourself ;) (Though I actually like the pressure sensitivity feature very much...) Also, in case you'd come back to this reply at some point in future: one feature I'd also love (I think I even wrote an email to you about it at the time) would be easy pasting of images into the document, and a "knife" tool, which would allow cutting them to parts along drawn lines. (And then moving and processing them separately.) I don't remember what exact use case I had for this, but I remember missing it badly. Ah, and there was some problem with not being able to easily paste links into the document purely with stylus, i.e. without reaching for keyboard. I used Write once for writing a journal from a trip, with photos, and I think I might have had to edit the raw HTML/SVG to add links from thumbnails to full photos, or something like this.

ramses0 8y ago
For me, this would be perfect a perfect use for removing tablature from some guitar sheet music: https://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-pagepreviews/HL_DDS_0000000000141683.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-pagepreviews/HL_DDS_0000... ...basically be able to slice the above image into various rows, and delete the "numbers" part, but keep + rearrange the "music" part. Seems like the ability to paste / rotate an image and then add in a "razer-slicer" set perpendicular to page or matching the image rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SuHTHoRd0&t=1m25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SuHTHoRd0&t=1m25s It's a relatively common operation (even for text, maybe even especially for lined text) giving you the option to write single-space (or double-space) and then magically have extra room to take notes, edit, etc, then later remove those edits. Actually it'd be very similar to "folding" handwritten documents (in the code-folding sense).

mkl 8y ago

Other note-taking tools generally do it by breaking strokes into lots of little line segments, each with a different width coming from the pressure. It works pretty well, and if the program stores the pressure-location data, the stroke width can be adjusted later. I do this all the time in Squid on Android, and have extracted stroke data from PDFs it exports.