Monday, July 9. 2007
Posted by Michael Harrison
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ON 2007 search bug
There's an interesting bug in ON 2007. The ink recognition when doing a search is subtly different from the recognition when writing normally. Earlier today I was searching for "Lon" and ON came back with a hit on "Contact". You can see in the image that when I created this page, ON correctly interpreted my writing as "Contact" but matched "Con" with "Lon" when doing the search. Huh? How many recognizers does the program have? Click on the image for a larger version. Comments
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Search bug isn't officially a 'bug'. There is only one recognizer in the app and when you write something we display the top hit in the page tab (that is why is says Contact on the page tab) but we also have other high percentage hits which is why you see a search hit for "lon". Same recognizer providing ranked results.
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Daniel Escapa
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2007-07-16 17:20
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To put it another way - Whenever you recognize handwriting, you get more than one result. A top result (the result that the recognizer believes is the most likely to be correct) and a bunch of alternates. To display converted ink as text, obviously you'd want to use the top result. But when you're searching, it makes sense to check the alternates too in case the top result is incorrect.
One recognizer, not a bug.
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Josh Einstein
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2007-07-18 09:32
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It's clear now and makes sense. There are basically two different "fields" with data that can be searched. The tab contains only text that has been interpreted from the first paragraph on the page (and periodically updated) and the page has everything else.
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Michael
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2007-07-18 10:01
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