Observed arrival · 2026-10-01
Pencora: a handwriting notebook that thinks ahead
Pencora is a free iPad notebook that combines handwriting with typed text rendered in a user’s handwriting, handwriting search, graphs, geometry, and PDF import.
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- iPad users who take handwritten notes
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- The page says its on-device handwriting model learned from 25,000 handwritten Russian words and has 22.7 million parameters.
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The page describes a 22.7-million-parameter handwriting model trained on 25,000 handwritten Russian words, with inference said to run on the iPad. It lists practical notebook features including shape snapping, a lasso that rotates strokes, and vector PDF export. The English handwriting dataset is still being collected, according to the page, which invites users to contribute writing.
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