It’s not as bad as you would think! That said it’s not perfect and my own ability to parse had gotten better so Idon’t use it a lot. But in the early days, yeah I’d say the S pen OCR for handwriting was good enough to be helpful. Obviously still leaving a lot to be desired,
and yes - highly dependent on the mangaka’s handwriting , but it normally gave me enough clues I could figure the rest out myself.
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It is indeed. It looks something like this in a Samsung tablet (I really enjoy having the pen for lookups):
Up to date instructions on how to set it up can be found in Xelieu’s Lazy Guide. It’s a really nice setup! However, I almost always end up reading on my laptop, since it’s so much more versatile. I sometimes interleave reading with SRS reviews, and it’s much faster with a full keyboard, and it’s easier to look up grammar, try to figure out words/expressions that are not written in a standard way, and it’s quicker to use machine translation/AI to figure out troublesome sentences.
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That’s very cool!
Dunno why but I thought Mokuro was extracting the text on a separate side area rather than overlayed on top of the actual text in the manga panels 
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Over the last few days I did try looking for a way to download an older version, but some of the more legit-looking sites weren’t able to get the download going. Had to settle for the newest version for now because I was really itching to start reading haha I think I might just start getting used to reading without too many bells and whistles for now–it definitely didn’t affect my enjoyment of the whole process
See this thread. It has a link from Amazon for 2.4.0. However that version will download versions with unbreakable DRM for some newer books.
Does Wayback Machine / web.archive.org work? (Actually, the link can be found in Reddit somewhere, I think.)