New fast tablets and writing recognition Kayne <miller.nospam[ at ]gmail.com> 6/14/2007 7:31:27 PM Okay, I'm sorry if I'm beating a dead horse with this post, but I truly have searched this group and found a number of posts pertaining to this question and still don't feel as if I have the answer. In some of the posts people are saying that handwriting recognition does not work very well with external (alternative input) tablets due to the slow sampling rate. These posts say that these external pads sample at about the same speed as a mouse, 40 times per second or so, and that the table PCs that are designed for handwriting recognition sample at 133 samples per second. So I went to new egg and looked at the specs of some of the more expensive (and mid range) writing tablets and I see that some of them have sampling rates listed as 200 pps, and 160 pps. Now I'm not familiar with the acronym pps. Is this to say that since the posts that I've been reading, tablets have gotten faster and that they are sampling at 200 and 160 samples per second, and now the handwriting recognition works with OneNote? Or am I being overly hopeful and misguided by this mysterious "pps"? I am attending some college courses and would very much like to purchase a tablet and MS OneNote 2007 for my current laptop (which uses windows vista business edition), but I do not want to waste this money if handwriting recognition does not work well enough to be useful. I also can not justify the cost of a brand new tablet PC. Please advise me? Thank you.

Re: New fast tablets and writing recognition "Erik Sojka (MVP)" <esojka[ at ]ms-onenote.net.nospam> 6/15/2007 7:24:57 PM Those posts may be based on older information - the Tablet PC and OneNote are about 4-5 years old at this time - that's a million years in the PC industry! It is entirely possible that newer external digitizing tablets may have the higher sample rate to make input more useful and HW recognition more accurate when parsed by the Ink engine (and therefore useable in OneNote). You would still need to install the Tablet PC OS (if you are still running XP) which is only available as a preinstalled option on Tablet PC hardware if purchasing retail. With Vista the separate Tablet PC bits are now included in certain Vista flavors - see http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/tab letPC.mspx I honestly don't know how the Tablet PC bits in those flavors of Vista work with an external digitizing tablet. Kayne <miller.nospam[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in news:1181849487.501673.36750[ at ]i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com: [Quoted Text] > Okay, I'm sorry if I'm beating a dead horse with this post, but I > truly have searched this group and found a number of posts pertaining > to this question and still don't feel as if I have the answer. > > In some of the posts people are saying that handwriting recognition > does not work very well with external (alternative input) tablets due > to the slow sampling rate. These posts say that these external pads > sample at about the same speed as a mouse, 40 times per second or so, > and that the table PCs that are designed for handwriting recognition > sample at 133 samples per second. > > So I went to new egg and looked at the specs of some of the more > expensive (and mid range) writing tablets and I see that some of them > have sampling rates listed as 200 pps, and 160 pps. Now I'm not > familiar with the acronym pps. Is this to say that since the posts > that I've been reading, tablets have gotten faster and that they are > sampling at 200 and 160 samples per second, and now the handwriting > recognition works with OneNote? Or am I being overly hopeful and > misguided by this mysterious "pps"? > > I am attending some college courses and would very much like to > purchase a tablet and MS OneNote 2007 for my current laptop (which > uses windows vista business edition), but I do not want to waste this > money if handwriting recognition does not work well enough to be > useful. I also can not justify the cost of a brand new tablet PC. > > Please advise me? > > Thank you. > >

Re: New fast tablets and writing recognition Kayne <miller.nospam[ at ]gmail.com> 6/15/2007 9:32:33 PM Thanks for the reply. At home I am running the x64 version of windows XP and I also have Office 2003 professional. I've noticed that with the installation of Office 2003 pro, I get the handwriting recognition option on the language bar. I wonder if this same engine will work with OneNote. I've read in another post on this group that it works with everything *but* OneNote. On my laptop I have Vista Business edition. I would love to have some definative answers if anybody knows for sure. I'd like to know first, if external tablets such as the Wacom Intuos3 or the Adesso Cyberpad... http://www.wacom.com/intuos/6x8.cfm http://www.adesso.com/products_detail.asp?productid=294 are fast enough and are compatible with the handwriting recognition features of OneNote. And second, if Office 2003/2007 comes with the engine I need for this feature to work in Windows XP. And lastly, does Windows Vista Business ed. support handwriting recognition work with OneNote and the Wacom or Adesso tablets? I know that the Adesso touts its own handwriting recognition and a plethora of software. But what I am interested in is its integration with One Note. Thanks for any replies and insight.