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Mac Japanese handwriting support

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Jason
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Mac Japanese handwriting support

Postby Jason » May 27th, 2007 6:14 am

Does anyone know of any decent Japanese handwriting recognition software for Mac OS X? I know JEDict has it for kanji, but in my experience it's really horrible at actually recognizing even simple kanji (unless I'm doing something wrong). I'd really rather not have to boot into XP everytime I need to look up a kanji in a book I don't know if I don't have to. Thanks. :)
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Re: Mac Japanese handwriting support

Postby Bueller_007 » May 27th, 2007 9:27 am

Jason wrote:Does anyone know of any decent Japanese handwriting recognition software for Mac OS X? I know JEDict has it for kanji, but in my experience it's really horrible at actually recognizing even simple kanji (unless I'm doing something wrong). I'd really rather not have to boot into XP everytime I need to look up a kanji in a book I don't know if I don't have to. Thanks. :)

I don't find it's that bad if you know the stroke order...

But I usually find it's faster to just use the radical lookup.

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Postby Belton » April 30th, 2008 3:32 pm

Much later.

I didn't think inkwell did Japanese, I remember trying. In any case it seems to have been quietly dropped in Leopard.

I was told of this Japanese program today.
Which unfortunately has been discontinued but does seem to have Leopard support.

screen shot of the input screen
http://www.ergo.co.jp/products/egb17/other.html

main product page
http://www.ergo.co.jp/products/egb17/index.html

Lot's of Japanese so good luck!

(I wish someone would license and implement Decuma for the Mac)

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