Digital pen and sharepoint

We use microsoft sharepoint for for our companies (Next Curve) internal document sharing. Last just before setting off on my hols I linked the sharepoint site with a POP email address.. now I can file digital pen notes in the file store.. works great.. even creats a directory(based on the email title in whch to place them). Next job when I get back is to work out how to automaticaly convert them in to text..

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Digital pen development - some more links

Well looked a bit more into digital pen development

a) Nokia have a page on their site that describes the development kit, but in the end this only links to Anoto.
b) Found a Development guide for services enabled by Anoto on the Anoto site.
c) Found another unhappy Anoto developer here who has the same issue as me.

Given in for now. Off instead to setup sharepoint to automatically file Digital Pen files.

Nokia Pen Development update

Well 5 days since I first got the Pen, done loads of demo's of it. The pen is working fine, pitty Blogs here cannot support images or else I could send a blog from the pen!!!. BTW with a bit of messing I could set up an auto email client that files the image on one of my servers then emails the link to my blog :)

One BIG issue I have found with the pen is the inability to link images together for sending via phone, so if I have 10 sides of A4 notes (which I often do), each time I finish a page it send it and I end up with 10 images on my phone, each of which needs to be either sent indervidualy or parceled on the phone! Could do with a tick box on the paper to say link this image with the next and parcel them up before sending.

Started looking at developing for the Digital pen. Looks like the only way to write anything for it is to become an Anodo partner (they are the people who developed the pen) and the cost? a wopping $1000 a year, great! :(
So no freebie SDK or anything for personal (non-professional use).. in fact I cannot find much on the web about developing for the pen, even the News Groups are quiet.. I think the lack of an open SDK is a great shame and will hold back development of the technology. BTW I notice Microsoft are working on their own "Magic Pen".

A digital pen invented at Microsoft's Beijing lab will allow people to switch effortlessly between electronic documents and paper. ...the digital pen also reflects an ongoing transformation in the process of invention at some large corporate labs, a hybridization of the lone inventor and traditional corporate R&D. Wang is the pen's lead inventor, and it is his insight, daring, and creativity that have largely driven the effort to develop it. But at the same time, he could not have made such rapid progress without Microsoft's collective expertise in pattern recognition algorithms, computer vision, handwriting technologies, and text-editing software. 'Personally, I'm really excited about it', says Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, whose main facility is in Redmond, WA. It's an example of a new kind of product incubation that we do,...one that brings together people with many different skills to solve a unique problem.'

If they get it right then I will be firing up my copy of Visual Studio .net and start doing some development!!

Couple of (semi) usefully links for Anoto are - Anoto Functionality site and the official Anoto site

Progress with the Nokia pen has been good. Got it working first time with our Sony Ericsson P800 phones using Bluetooth. In what it does it works a treat .. write the message, tick the box to send to the phone and tick to ok the page and away it goes. The phone picks up the message and places it in its message box.
To send it to somebody you then have to save the message to pictures and send it.

The pity is
a) You cannot simple write the name of the person you want to send it to and send it (on any of the paper, there are services available that allow this but its a pity it doesn't out of the box.
b) There is I can only send the text as an image .. not pure text..

Ahhh well we will continue to try it.. though based on my normal rule that £100 buys you 1 days interest in a gadget, then £150+ that it cost reckonon I have 1/2 day left ;)

Nokia digital pen

Just taken delivery of two Nokia Digital pens for the business (If you haven't already seen them then check out the Nokia).

Got them from DataMind (arrived in a couple of days). Also bought the oxford paperkit which in cludes a couple of different writing pads (also comes with version 1.5.0.8 of the hand writing recognition software .. which for bizarre reasons is more advanced than the 1.7 version which is sold separately!!!)

First impressions are "hmm v nice device.." Still very much 1st generation stuff but we will see.
Likes: Great talking point at meetings, looks like it will stop me loosing notes that I write on scraps of paper, lots of real business opportunities for us.
Dislikes: Still too big to feel good carrying it about, Colour (yukee brown). There is a two stage process for converting handwriting to real text (not just a graphic). Maybe by the next version they will have integrated the apps together better.

We will see how we get on with them in the real world.

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