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| RoGeorge:
Often I crave for a way to upload a pencil and paper scribbling. Alternatively I must write a full paragraph and still not describe clear enough what a 10 seconds hand-drawing would show. And to upload a sketch, I must take a photo of the pencil and paper scribbling: - move away from the PC to grab the camera - fiddle with light and focus and framing for the camera - plug the USB to upload the pic - open the pic in an editor, to crop the clutter - change the resolution to something decent - save in optimized colors and compression, so the attachment to be less than 100 kBytes or so - then browse to where the crop is saved and attach it to the forum... This is tedious. Any ideas? What to use instead, or how to add a hand-drawn schematic/waveform/formula/etc. in a snappy way? :-// |
| Solberg:
At my old university, they sold a pen that would copy everything you wrote into internal memory. So you could upload to your computer. And you would get an exact copy. Is it something like that, you are thinking about? |
| Solberg:
Like this one. https://eu.livescribe.com/ |
| ledtester:
I still take a picture, but I use my cell phone which automatically uploads the pic to cloud storage. In my case that's Google Drive. I have to wait a little while for it to become available on my laptop, but when it is I just take a screenshot which lowers the resolution and reduces the size of the image. |
| Gregg:
I use a flatbed scanner for sketches etc. I have a Canon flatbed that scans directly to pdf files; even most managers can open a pdf file! :-DD |
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