Not that it would really help a lot with your handwriting, but could you run it through an OCR engine before posting and save the text to a database somewhere?
(And normally my handwriting is a bit better; I wrote that one down while driving. :)
One thing I'd like to do is to print templates with subtle gridding, like in my quadrille moleskine notebook. It helps keep my handwriting legible, which would help the OCR.
I'm usually more concerned with scanning sketches, though.
Oh, I figure as much, but I have my head elsewhere.
Once you have the OCR engine set up, a simple perl script could look for key words or phrases or markings and handle the images accordingly.
For example, how about writing e-mails on index cards. Toss them into the scanner when they get to a computer, and poof, e-mails go out to the appropriate recipients with the contents of each card.
Right now I'm working on making paper cards addressable, so that I can assign a "data shadow" to each card. This is a kind of "hello, world" in that direction.
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(And normally my handwriting is a bit better; I wrote that one down while driving. :)
One thing I'd like to do is to print templates with subtle gridding, like in my quadrille moleskine notebook. It helps keep my handwriting legible, which would help the OCR.
I'm usually more concerned with scanning sketches, though.
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Once you have the OCR engine set up, a simple perl script could look for key words or phrases or markings and handle the images accordingly.
For example, how about writing e-mails on index cards. Toss them into the scanner when they get to a computer, and poof, e-mails go out to the appropriate recipients with the contents of each card.
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Right now I'm working on making paper cards addressable, so that I can assign a "data shadow" to each card. This is a kind of "hello, world" in that direction.
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