MEDION Digital Notepad (MD85276) software

Some months ago, I've bougth a little gadget from the local Aldi shop: a digital notepad. Sadly, the software it was accompanied with, didn't work at Linux. Luckly the device gets to be read out as it were a USB device, so we only need to be able to convert the proprietary .TOP images to a more general format.

A while ago I've written a small but yet full-features Perl script to do this, but I stopped working on it and it got dumped on my subversion repository with a half-finished GUI. Other people too wrote several small tools to accomplish this, of which many can be found on Eddie Niese's blog.
I've now however started a C++ rewrite of my script, based on the wxWidgets framework. It currently supports .TOP reading, .SVG writing, and a preview window. I plan to add most basic functions (like rotate, crop, import all from inkpad, etcetera). The idea is to make the process of importing and converting images from the inkpad, as user-friendly as it is now to import pictures from your camera to fspot (e.g. plug it in, press 5 buttons, and watch the result).

A sneak peak:

(note: in real this message is written a lot cleaner, seems like the notepad doesn't do my handwriting any good :) )

However development won't progress very fast (I've got examns coming up), I plan to finish this one so there actually is some decent software for this digital notepad.

Update as of 2009-06-28: the project has advanced quite a lot and has moved to a public GoogleCode repository.