Building a Handwriting recognition application with WPFBijoy SinghalDeveloper Evangelist, Microsoft India

AGENDA

Hardware Evolution & Platform Evolution Understanding the concept of Ink Understanding various approaches to Ink Creating handwriting recognition app in WPF

Form Factors

Ink Analysis and Input Supplement for the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit 1.7

Various approaches to working with Ink

Approaches: WPF: System.Windows.Controls - InkCanvas Winforms: Microsoft.Ink - InkCollector; InkOverlay; InkPicture; InkEdit COM: RealTimeStylus

InkOverlay/Collector are not designed for usage in WPF Ink can be stored in System.Windows.Ink.Stroke objects (WPF

strokes) or in Microsoft.Ink.Stroke objects ('Winforms' Strokes, as provided by InkOverlay/Collector)

Windows + WPF = Exciting PossibilitiesUnderstanding Ink and handwriting recognition

Collecting the handwriting Control that can read the Ink(InkCanvas)

Processing/Recognizing Analyzer(IAWinFX.dll)

Displaying the recognized string Control that can display the text (regular control e.g. TextBox)

The namespaces Microsoft.Ink System.Windows.Ink

DEMO: Creating a Handwriting recognizing app in WPFBijoy Singhal

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