IRIS
A very nice tool is the IRIS pen which is an OCR-translator in the shape of a pen. It is developed by a Belgium compagny. It has a special Asian edition : the IRISPen II AsianHomepage of I.R.I.S.
Tablet PC
Microsoft's pen-based Tablet PC runs a modified version of it's Windows XP called "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition". It's available in both traditional and simplified Chinese. Tablet PC's are manufactered by major compagnies like Legend and Acer.More on OCR
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition.The clearer and larger the characters are, the better the system will recognise them. The problem with Chinese characters is that ther ihas to be recognition of thousands of individual characters, who are rather complex in structure. So the more characters the softwrare can recognise the better, so the characterset support is very important.
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You need unicode fonts, a 4+ browser and acrobat reader to fully explore and enjoy this webpage. (if necessary you can download asian fontpacks for acrobat reader)
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