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Note-taking application recognizes text from photographs

Looking back at yesterday's reference to Wired's review of Evernote http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/hands-on-iphone.html got me thinking.

Text recognition in photographs -- you take a picture of something using a webcam, iPhone camera, etc. and it will perform an off-site OCR [optical character recognition-turns it into digital text] of the image. How cool is that for students with print disabilities in vocational settings? It could help more students really become smart shoppers...and make non-computer library research far less daunting! Hmm...how to get this into a classroom...that's still quite daunting...

Posted by Susanne Croasdaile on November 14, 2008 5:00 AM |

Comments

Evernote is great! I use it for all my note taking now, keeping track of parent phone calls, putting in info from workshops. It's just so useful! I love the text in photo searching feature! Very Useful!

Posted by: Patrick BLack | November 14, 2008 7:28 AM

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