Could this be converted to an applet, similar to the touch screen
keyboard entry app?

Seems like that would be the likely route to take.

Tobin

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:01 -0800, Spencer, Bob wrote:

> Michael,
> We have only discussed handwriting but haven't done any real
> investigation into this area.  I like what I see.  If we get some time
> we'll check it out.  I wonder how well the keyboard and handwriting apps
> work inside a matchbox single-app-at-a-time window manager.
> 
> Bob
> 
> Michael Levin wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I was recently informed of the existence of this project and I was
> > wondering what the plans were for handwriting recognition on penabled
> > mobile devices (PDAs). The launchpad blueprints page suggests changes
> > to onBoard but I didn't see anything relating to handwriting
> > recognition.    
> > 
> > I'm asking because two months ago I released my project, CellWriter,
> > a grid-entry handwriting recognition panel under the GPL. It was
> > developed for use on tablet PCs but I've had users successfully run
> > it on PDAs.   
> > CellWriter requires per-writer training and being grid-based is not
> > as immediately usable as pre-trained full sentence recognition
> > systems.  
> > However, it does have the advantage of being able to learn users'
> > individual handwriting style and is able to generate any Unicode
> > character, letting users write in their native language. 
> > 
> > Source and an Ubuntu/Debian package are available on my website:
> > http://risujin.org/cellwriter/
> > 
> > If you find CellWriter to be at all useful, please let me know and
> > I'd be happy to support it and make any changes necessary for it to
> > integrate with your systems.  
> > 
> > --
> > Michael Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 

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