Convert text to handwriting

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Now that is handy ! Nice find !

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Thanks for sharing, Iā€™m looking forward to trying this out.

I still wonder why my Apple Newton recognized my handwriting better than anything Iā€™ve seen up until just a few years ago. Did it just have more left-handed developers, or was it something more? What intellectual property did Apple decide to lock up that couldnā€™t be replicated by other developers?

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very fun but odd how much speed effects ligibility.

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There were two different digitizers on the Newton, one licensed from a Russian company (Paragraph?) and another developed internally (Rosetta).

Rosetta worked well on Mac OS the last time I tried it (and the Easter Egg where Rosetta! Rosetta! Rosetta! became ā€œThatā€™s me!ā€ was still there).

Paragraph was offered as a stand-alone product by the company and I bought it at least once for Windows in-between Windows for Pen Computing and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition (and Iā€™m thinking about doing all the in-app purchase for Evernoteā€¦)

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I had this experience, for years all of the other products out on the market either failed to recognize my (admittedly poor) left-handed writing, or required me to learn something else (Palm). Many years later I ended up buying a used Newton and went through the hoops to pull notes from it so I could get the functionality back. I kept hoping that Apple would port the functionality over to the Mac so I could write on my Wacom table, but by the time they did it I could do better with voice notes.

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@mahipal_kumawat I see that you have put a proprietary license on your application. Is it also commercial?

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Itā€™s definately not an open licence.

ā€˜Free as in beerā€™ only.

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The tool is proprietary and ad-supported, but users are free to use the generated output without restriction . They can sell the notes , can create and sell the assignments . Basically user can do whatever they want with output generated images.

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Advertisements are explicitly included in this siteā€™s definition of a commercial interest. It is a requirement of our terms of service that you acknowledge any commercial interest in what you have linked to, including advertising.

From our FAQ:

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You have violated both provisions, posting a link by which you benefit from advertising without disclosing it, and the majority of your posts must be community contributions. Since your only post here is something from which you derive commercial benefit via advertisement, you have not followed that policy in two ways.

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Thank you for pointing this out. I understand the policy now, and I acknowledge that my post did not include a clear disclosure of commercial interest related to advertising on the linked site.

This was an oversight on my part and not an attempt to mislead the community. I respect that this is a community forum and that transparency around any commercial benefit is required.

Iā€™m happy to update the post to explicitly disclose the advertising/commercial aspect, or remove the link entirely if that is preferred. Going forward, I will ensure that:

  • Any post with a potential commercial or advertising benefit is clearly disclosed, and
  • My contributions focus primarily on genuine, non-promotional community participation.

Please let me know the appropriate next step. Thank you for the clarification and for maintaining the quality standards of the community.

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Edit the post to disclose that you are benefiting from it by advertisement. Then participate meaningfully in the community in ways that clearly help others. :smiling_face:

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So you are making money by facilitating students cheating?

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@mahipal_kumawat Can you please outline clearly the legitimate uses of your tool that arenā€™t committing academic fraud?

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