Using Moleskine’s New Smart Notebook Is Like Magic — techcrunch.com

We covered Moleskine’s launch of its new Adobe Cloud-enabled Smart Notebook, but after using one in practice, the tech has clearly merited another look. You can see a live trial of the entire process above, which takes under two minutes and offers up an editable .SVG file pretty much the same as those you’ll get from a $2,000+ digital display and drawing tablet combo. The anchor points on the page mean that the perspective you put on the page is the perspective you get in the digital version, which means if you have a bit of a shaky grasp on that like myself it’s not going to magically correct any of your problems. That said, the resulting vector is much easier to fix and change than would be any scanned BMP or other traditional image file. Plus, using your iPhone’s camera to capture your sketches from the notebook itself is far, far easier than employing any kind of flatbed or hand scanner.

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