New microsoft office word document
- 1. ABSTRACT The ease of use provided by the classic pen-and-paper interface is unsurpassed. Except for writing long text passages, most of us regard it as the most convenient way of expressing, conveying, and storing ones thoughts and ideas. However, pen and paper are hardly supported by current information technology. The integration of paper-based devices and modern computers has been hampered by two problems: the difficulty of recording and writing without affecting the natural look and feel of pen and paper, and the insufficient recognition rates provided by handwriting recognizers. However, considerable progress has been made over the recent years. While new and highly sophisticated pen-based hardware is announced almost monthly nowadays, handwriting recognition rates are steadily improvingand will soon reach a level of common acceptance. These developments pave the way for a better integration of pen and paper into the daily workflow. The main idea of the concept described in the following sections is to generate a so-called model file for all paper documents expecting handwritten input. A model file describes the structure of a document and provides the context knowledge necessary for handwriting recognition. Moreover,it contains information about how the recognized data should be processed, including its final destination. A unique ID printed on each document specifies the corresponding model file. Writers can access the model file of a document via the Internet, under the number specified on the document. In practice, this means calling the (phone) number of a server dispatching model files, which motivates the name of the concept Callpaper a very transparent concept for the writer i