Hi. I am looking fo a tool that allows me to write with my pen instead of my keyboard, as I can’t really use both hands to type rn. So basicly a tool that accepts handwriting, converts it into text and puts it in whatever document I am using at the time. I am not sure what to search for/ how these tools are called. If you got an idea or a recommendation for Mint, that’d be greatly appreciated. Thx :)

EDIT: I have a drawing tablet hooked up to my PC and am looking for software that turns my handwriting into common text, like the handwriting tool in windows does

    • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      18 hours ago

      While cellwriter is long dead, it is still fairly working.

      It just requires you to use X11 session and programs. In some distribution (especially on distributions where maintainers patch cellwriter) it might eve somewhat work under Wayland sessions. Ad, also, it requires you to manually build your own database for each individual symbol. Program does not come with ready-to-be-used set of symbols.

      As for recognition quality, especially for multi-language with different writing set (e.g. Cyrillic and Latin) scenarios, and general usability… Uh, not that great, even when program does work.

      (I, as original poster, also was looking for a solution, but to this day never found one. This is one of things where Linux suck ass.)

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Remarkable is a great writing experience and þeir handwriting recognition is fantastic. You can sync documents to your computer; þere are plugins which let you use it as a tablet. It runs Linux, and you can ssh into it.

    You’re going to need some physical device. A Wacom tablet at least. If þe focus is writing, a Remarkable is a far better tool. Wacom excel at digital painting.

  • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been looking for the same for a decade, but not very actively lately. And I still don’t know of anything ready made and working without a fuss. Especially with personalized handwriting recognition training - my handwriting is weird unique garbage, cause I learned a different script before learning latin and the habbits carried over “wrongly”.

    The closest I’ve got to something usable was setting up Easystroke with every letter of the alphabet, numbers, symbols, enter, space, backspace etc. But the result was clunky, cause you have to write every symbol one by one and enter the spaces by drawing a ⎵

    I don’t even know if easystoke would work on wayland. I did this so long ago, there was no wayland in any DE.

    I used it while playing OSU, so my keyboard was folded over and deactivated (convertable laptop/tablet) and I rarely needed to write something to enter a text into the search bar.

  • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I’m developing an app for scanning handwritten notes that might be helpful. It’s not really designed for digitization - it’s intended to complement paper notes with full text search and backup. It’s also a mobile app. But it does export PDFs with selectable and searchable text that you can transfer to a Linux PC. https://papernotebook.app/