If your setup can accommodate the physical connection then it is noticeably better, with reduced latency.

Astropad Project Blue lets you connect the iPad and PC via Wi-Fi or physically via USB. Once you’ve got those, you’re good to go. It’s still in a public beta, so you can download it for free right now you need to download two applications, one for the iPad, and one for the PC. After scanning the text, the user can share it by email, upload it to the cloud, or copy it to the clipboard which is exclusive for Android devices.Project Blue is a beta project from Astrolabs, designed to connect iPads and PCs (Image credit: Astrolabs )Īstropad has been around as an iPad app for years – it used to be one of the best ways to turn an iPad into the equivalent of a Wacom Cintiq by connecting it up to a Macbook (before Apple started doing that themselves).Īstropad Project Blue (opens in new tab) is a new venture – a way to turn an iPad into a drawing tablet that interfaces with a PC.

It offers the possibility to add photos from the gallery of the tablet or mobile phone and supports writing in more than 50 languages. It not only allows you to digitize the texts written on paper, but also the notes that the teacher makes on the classroom blackboard. The app's handwriting OCR (optical character recognition) engine extracts text from paper documents, like letters, school notes, meeting notes, and grocery lists, allowing those who prefer to write in longhand the freedom to continue. Pen & Print allows you to turn handwriting to text on the iPad or iPhone without an Apple pencil. In a variation on the handwriting recognition concept, Pen to Print reads scanned handwritten documents and converts them into editable, searchable digital text that can be stored on your device or within a cloud service.

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