Sunday, September 28, 2003

For non english speakers the Divider object makes the whole Ink Analysis thing very important , and while the obvious benefit of analysis is in building recognizers for other "languages" , shape and other non character recognition promises all manner of ink based applications. see the tablet uml application and then think all types of graphical design and modelingtools
simply all Tablet PC devices have a digitizer underneath the screen that accepts pen input . if you can divide the SDK into subsystems , you would have the following subsystems

  • Collection API
  • Pen or Ink API
  • Reco API

Jarret and Su divide the pertinent material in their book into :

  • Tablet Input
  • Ink data management
  • Ink Recognition

The cover other relevant areas in Pen Computing as implemented by the SDK API, but those are main parts of the technology according to them. Thats pretty accurate.
The SDK documentation does a similar subsystem identification with Ink Collection,Ink data and Recognition. The SDK also brings in the idea of Ink analysis, but thats the same as Ink data as far as am concerned