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2008-06-21 , 13:04
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Originally Posted by JBHemlock View Post
Some of the commercial HWR systems do learn your writing. The biggie I can think of is Paragraph/Calligrapher, which was the original Newton HWR engine, and is still around in various devices. It's a dictionary-based recognizer, so it tries to recognize entire words, and gets trained when you make word corrections.
On the entire ParaGraph/CalliGrapher/PenOffice/PhatWare/RitePen issue, here's an excerpt of part of an email conversation I had with one of the RiteScript people (in a -- semi-successfull -- attempt to interest them in Linux and the Nokia Itablets. Just to un-muddy the waters on the issue of what exactly happened to Newton's HWR after -- well, the Newton:

"It's exactly the other way around: PenOffice has been created by our team (former ParaGraph International then Pen&Internet division of SGI and Vadem) and is based on our CalliGrapher HWR technology. After Microsoft acquired our technologies from the company we've been part of in '99, Phatware (run by our friend and former partner who used to bundle CalliGrapher with his HTC Notes program) stepped forward and licensed PenOffice from that company..."

And yes, I've been confirmed that RiteScript is seriously considering the emerging Linux market, but is (unrealistically?) afraid of the "culture of everything for free" in the Linuxverse.
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