Re: delayed recognition

starnet!apple!usl.com!ford (Mike "Ford" Ditto)

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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 21:07 EDT
From: starnet!apple!usl.com!ford (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
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In-reply-to: Dave Brennan's message of Thu, 21 Oct 93 16:17 PDT <9310212213.AA03757@austin2.hal.com>
Subject: Re: delayed recognition
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> > I think this is exactly how it should work.  Select a region and recognize.
>
> For this to work the machine would have to store the full digital ink
> information (ie: not just the bitmap) of stuff that you might want to
> translate later.  Since you definitely wouldn't want to waste memory
	[ ... ]

This seems to be what it does anyway... if you bring up a complex ink
drawing, you can see the strokes being re-rendered in the order they
were originally drawn.  Also, for many types of drawings it takes up
less memory to store the strokes than to store the bitmap.

					-=] Ford [=-