Windows Phone Thoughts: Stand Up and Be Recognized! Calligrapher v7.3 by PhatWare Reviewed

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Friday, June 18, 2004

Stand Up and Be Recognized! Calligrapher v7.3 by PhatWare Reviewed

Posted by Doug Raeburn in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:00 AM



Installation
Installation involves a standard install through ActiveSync… there are no special steps or surprises.

The storage footprint is fairly substantial at 2.5 MB, largely due to the dictionaries required. However, Calligrapher works just fine from internal flash memory (like the iPAQ File Store) or a memory card. To save on primary memory while making sure that Calligrapher is always available regardless of which storage card I’m using, I’ve opted to install it in the File Store. I’ve been using such an installation for several months and it’s very stable, with excellent performance.

Using Calligrapher


Figure 1: The start of another glowing review…

All you do is write on the screen using standard cursive text.


Figure 2: It’s always nice get some recognition!

And after a brief (and configurable) pause, your handwritten entry is recognized and converted to text on the screen. Calligrapher supports cursive or printed input, as well as a mixture of the two.

I had very little problem with recognition overall, even right from the start. Admittedly, my handwriting is reasonably legible and pretty close to the way I learned cursive in grade school, which is a plus here. Each person using Calligrapher will most likely have a different experience with the recognition early on depending on the legibility of his or her handwriting.

Simple Error Correction


Figure 3: A mistake!

Mistakes can occur when you simply misspell something, as in this case, or if a word is recognized incorrectly. The latter happened to me moderately frequently when I was trying to write very quickly.


Figure 4: No obscene gestures necessary… the correction gesture works better here.

Select the incorrect text by tapping on it, and use the correction gesture (similar to a checkmark).


Figure 5: The power of suggestion.

If your mistake is fairly close to the correct word, that word is likely to appear in the list of suggested words in the correction menu. That’s what happened here, so I just tapped on the correct word, "light".


Figure 6: All better!

Simple errors are that simple to correct.

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