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I'm using both the gesture and text recognizers and am noticing that there are (legitimate) cases where both recognizers return results for a given stroke. For example, drawing a single top-bottom vertical stroke could be the number 1, letter l, or a top-bottom gesture.

I thought I might be able to recognize the difference by looking at strokes but it turns out the gesture and text recognizers return completely different stroke information, in particular, the ids do not correlate, which seems unfortunate. For example, the single vertical stroke returns the following gesture results:

{
 "version": "3",
 "id": "MainBlock",
 "type": "Gesture",
 "gestures": [ {
   "type": "top-bottom",
   "strokes": [ {
     "id": "ps0",
     "bounding-box": {
      "x": 91,
      "y": 79,
      "width": 8,
      "height": 100
     }
    } ],
   "bounding-box": {
    "x": 91,
    "y": 79,
    "width": 8,
    "height": 100
   }
  } ]
}

 And the text recognizer:

{
 "type": "Text",
 "bounding-box": {
  "x": 90,
  "y": 78,
  "width": 10,
  "height": 102
 },
 "label": "l",
 "words": [ {
   "label": "l",
   "candidates": [ "l", "I", "1", "/", "\\" ],
   "bounding-box": {
    "x": 90,
    "y": 78,
    "width": 10,
    "height": 102
   },
   "items": [ {
     "timestamp": "2024-09-12 16:26:58.951000",
     "X": [ 97, 96, 95, 95, 94, 94, 93, 93,
      93, 92, 92, 92, 91, 91, 91, 91,
      91, 91, 91, 91, 92, 92, 92, 92,
      93, 93, 93, 94, 94, 94, 94, 95,
      95, 95, 95, 96, 96, 96, 96, 97,
      97, 97, 98, 98, 98, 98, 98, 98,
      99, 99, 99, 99, 99, 99, 99, 99,
      99, 99, 99, 99, 98, 98, 98, 97,
      97, 96, 96 ],
     "Y": [ 81, 80, 80, 79, 79, 80, 80, 81,
      82, 83, 85, 86, 88, 90, 92, 95,
      97, 100, 103, 106, 109, 112, 115, 118,
      121, 124, 127, 130, 133, 136, 139, 141,
      144, 146, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 158,
      160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168,
      169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176,
      177, 178, 179, 178, 178, 177, 176, 176,
      175, 174, 173 ],
     "F": [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
      1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
      1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
      1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
      1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
      1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
      1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
      1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
      1, 1, 1 ],
     "T": [ 0, 8, 12, 13, 17, 24, 28, 30,
      34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47,
      48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 61,
      63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76,
      78, 80, 82, 84, 85, 87, 89, 91,
      93, 95, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106,
      108, 109, 111, 113, 115, 119, 120, 124,
      128, 132, 139, 172, 176, 178, 181, 183,
      185, 189, 193 ],
     "type": "stroke",
     "id": "0000000001008500ff00"
    } ]
  } ],
 "version": "3",
 "id": "MainBlock"
}

So the stroke has an id of ps0 in the gesture results and an id of 0000000001008500ff00 in the text results.

So clearly I can't match the two via stroke id. Bounding box is the obvious choice, although it's not exactly the same either.

Are there any recommendations for how to best approach this?

Thank you!

OK - thank you!