On 2012-04-02, at 8:46 AM, vincent habchi wrote: > Le 2 avr. 2012 à 14:37, "Reaves, Timothy" <trea...@silverfieldstech.com> a > écrit : >> He wants to write an app that will take a picture of shorthand and turn it >> into text. > Stenography (Greek stenos-: reduced) is an obsolete system of script > secretaries used to take notes on the fly. > I’m not sure, but I think it is a syllabic script. I don’t think anybody uses > it anymore: it has been superseded by Siri :) Indeed. I had a secretary who knew both Pitman and Gregg stenography methods. That dates me for sure. (She would then go to a typewriter to produce the letter or article - hehehehe) Perhaps a current use of a similar mechanism would be a court reporter or the Congressional floor reporters walking around to each person speaking. > Steganography comes from Greek steganos, roof, wherefore it’s use for > obfuscated communications. Fascinating article.. thanks. _______________________________________________
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