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Pen & Paper Blogging?

OmnutiaOmnutia
edited October 2008 in Technology
A random thought occurred to me just now, I want to write more on my blog but I never feel much like doing so while sitting in front of the computer. How easy would it be to write things onto paper, then scan and OCR them onto my blog on a regular basis?
Has anyone had any experience with OCR, how well does it work and can you change your handwriting to be more easily read?

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  • AprecheApreche
    A random thought occurred to me just now, I want to write more on my blog but I never feel much like doing so while sitting in front of the computer. How easy would it be to write things onto paper, then scan and OCR them onto my blog on a regular basis?
    Has anyone had any experience with OCR, how well does it work and can you change your handwriting to be more easily read?
    The kind of basic OCR stuff that works with your scanner works ok with scanning a printed book or something. If you're talking about hand-writing, I hope you have great penmanship. Really, it's not worth it if you aren't scanning in a huge bulk of text, like an entire book, and you don't care about a few errors here and there. Otherwise, you will spend more time proof-reading than you would have spent typing.

    If you want to hand-write a blog post, a tablet PC with handwriting recognition is the way to go.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    If I was going that route the netbook would be more my thing. Thanks for the info though.
  • MrRobotoMrRoboto
    Losts of artists have their pen and paper "blogs", just buy a moleskin, draw and write, scan, upload as Jpeg. Honestly, if people are actually reading your blog, I'm pretty sure they wont mind downloading an image once in a while.
  • AprecheApreche
    Losts of artists have their pen and paper "blogs", just buy a moleskin, draw and write, scan, upload as Jpeg. Honestly, if people are actually reading your blog, I'm pretty sure they wont mind downloading an image once in a while.
    The problem is that Google isn't able to index and search the text in your jpegs. So if you write a note about the latest video game in your notebook, and scan it in, nobody will find it unless you transcribe it.
  • MrRobotoMrRoboto
    how about just transcribing some key words?
  • AprecheApreche
    how about just transcribing some key words?
    Then the search engines, mostly Google, will think you are trying to do SEO shenanigans to increase your rank. They will rank you down for that.
  • ColdguyColdguy
    I just write rough drafts in a notebook to get my ideas started, and use it as a template for when I get on a computer.
  • DkongDkong
    My only experience with OCR is when my friend used to scan vocab words out of our programming book when our teacher forced us to type out all of the vocab words each chapter. We thought it was stupid busywork (and it mostly was), so OCR was our way around it. It worked great. By as Scott said, it was just printed text. I doubt it would work as good on handwriting.

    Personally, I'd just write it down on paper then just type it up off the paper. Just like back in the days of writing a rough draft for an essay in class then typing the essay on the computer that night...stuff like that.
  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    You could just hand write it and pay someone to type it - or type it out yourself.
  • DiagorasDiagoras
    What about dictation software? Of course, that would be a bit expensive, but it's the only alternative I know of.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    That's an idea, I could just get a cheap ipod recorder add-on and just podcast instead.
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