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Paragon Software released a new software called PenReader Touch for Windows Mobile, bringing advanced multilingual handwriting recognition to the platform. However, the idea here is not to provide users with yet another input application that relies on stylus — rather PenReader Touch allows users to write with their fingertips, without any additional training or handwriting adjustment. Or at least that’s the official story.
Some of the PenReader Touch features include:
- Fast and exact recognition of 30 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish symbols.
- High-quality handwriting recognition engine that immediately recognizes letters; numbers (Arabic numbers, included); standard, arithmetic and punctuation symbols; several gestures that fully duplicate main keyboard functions (shift, backspace, etc.).
- Customizable handwriting style which helps to recognize text more accurately and faster, just choose a convenient way of writing various symbols in the “Copy-book” menu.
- Fast recognition of pen strokes from any application window. PenReader Touch recognizes text written anywhere on the screen and pastes it to the current cursor position.
- Options for pen width and ink color let the user customize the interface in accordance with the user’s taste. Multilingual interface is presented in English and Russian.
Want it? PenReader Touch works with all Windows Mobile 6, 6.1 Classic and Professional, and Windows Mobile Pocket PC 5.0 devices and could be yours for $34.95 via download from here.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
