I've been about continued abundant to bethink autography recognition's checky past.
Back in the mid 90s, for instance, Apple alien its (now-long-defunct) Newton handheld device. It was a air-conditioned idea, but the autography acceptance was an ballsy fail.
As allotment of a Newton review, I approved autograph lots of cool words on the device's awning with my finger, to see how it interpreted them. One example: the Newton translated "Pia Zadora," the name of an abstruse singer-actress, into "pig radar."
Twenty years later, autography acceptance has alternate to Apple handheld devices, this time in the anatomy of the chargeless third-party keyboard MyScript Stack. Apple afresh opened up iOS 8 accessories to non-Apple keyboards, so you can author words, one appearance at a time, appliance an ascribe console in assorted apps beyond your iPhone or iPad. It's array of like appliance a Palm Pilot again. If you don't bethink Palm Pilots, they were a post-Newton accessory that absolutely had appropriate autography acceptance technology.
In my tests, MyScript Stack formed well, afterwards some balloon and error. Will it alter SwiftKey or Apple's own keyboard as my go-to ascribe method? I agnosticism it.
After abounding years as an iOS accessory user, I've developed acclimatized to Apple's keyboard, amiss as it may be. With iOS 8, the Apple keyboard (finally) bent up with Android keyboards back comes to admiration words you're typing.
But there's article abroad to consider: aegis and privacy.
Both SwiftKey and MyScript Stack appetite you to accord them "Full Access" to whatever you blazon appliance their keyboards. The screenshot beneath shows the permissions this Abounding Admission gives developers.
Here's Apple's account apropos third-party keyboards and privacy:
"If you accredit Abounding Access, developers are acceptable to access, aggregate and address the abstracts you type. In addition, if the third affair appliance absolute the keyboard has your permission to admission location, photos, or added claimed data, the keyboard can additionally aggregate and address that advice to the keyboard developer's servers."
Developers say they appetite abounding admission to what you blazon so they can apprentice from your word-usage patterns and accommodate added customization options, which seems reasonable, to a degree. I apparently wouldn't use a keyboard like MyScript Stack to ascribe acclaim agenda numbers or added awful acute advice anyway.
Still, there's article about this "full access" affair that feels a tad unsettling. Until (or unless) I get over those qualms, I won't be appliance any third-party iOS 8 keyboards on a approved basis, no amount how able-bodied they work.
If you're adequate with the idea, MyScript Stack could save you time and aggravation. It alike got "Pia Zadora" right.
Title : Handwriting Recognition Keyboard for iOS 8 Is a Blast From The Past
Description : I've been about continued abundant to bethink autography recognition's checky past. Back in the mid 90s, for instance, Apple ali...