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PenOffice 3.1 adds tablet PC handwriting support to OpenOffice.org 3.0

PenOffice 3.1
PhatWare has released a new version of PenOffice, a handwriting recognition utility for touchscreen based computers running Windows. PenOffice 3.1 adds support for Windows Vista, as well as OpenOffice.org 3.0, Microosft Office XP or later, and multi-monitor systems.

There's also a new configuration manager, a new configuration manager, and a new scripting engine among other things.

PenOffice allows you to draw anywhere on the screen in order to enter text in a document or other text field. You can also draw on your screen as a virtual scratchpad and save notes or drawings as PNG, JPEG, or BMP files. The program supports handwiriting in 9 languages including English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. It has a dictionary of about 100,000 words, as well as a user customizable dictionary.

A license costs $59.95, but there's a 30 day free trial available.

[via GottaBeMobile]

Filed under: Text, Windows, Productivity, Commercial, Freeware

Free EverNote Plus for handwriting sample

EverNote Handwriting RecognitionWhile Tablet PC software isn't something we typically cover, this particular offer is hard to ignore. EverNote is offering a free license to either EverNote Plus, or ritePen 2.5 (a Tablet handwriting recognition utility) for a sample of your handwriting. And although the offer in and of itself is quite interesting, to me what I found most interesting was the list of sentences that users must submit to meet the qualifications for the free offer. Here's the list:
  1. Sympathizing would fix Quaker objectives.
  2. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs!
  3. The July sun caused a fragment of black pine wax to ooze on the velvet quilt.
  4. How quickly daft jumping zebras vex?
  5. Just keep examining every low bid quoted for zinc etchings...
  6. The explorer was frozen in his 'Big Kayak' just after making queer discoveries.
  7. Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dogs.
  8. Jackdaws Love My Big Sphinx Of Quartz!
  9. Six Big Juicy Steaks Sizzled In A Pan As Five Workmen Left The Quarry.
  10. The Five 'boxing' Wizards Jump Quickly Up.
  11. While Making Deep Excavations, We Found Some Quaint Bronze Jewelry.
  12. Whenever The "Red Fox" Jumped, The Squirrel Gazed Suspiciously.
  13. Quick Zephyrs Blow, Vexing Daft Jim.
  14. ~45% #342a $87 €60 <D&G> 7*(2^3) = 56 {27/9}=3
  15. Nora@comcast.net; www.slashdot.org; Cecil@hotmail.com; c:\temp
  16. [94085] 12:45 +1 (924) 572-3601 © EverNote 2006
Web addresses, email addresses and file paths make the list, which is not surprising, as do currency values and formulas. More surprisingly are some of the regular sentences that are apparently difficult to detect, such as "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs!".

[Via Black Belt Productivity]

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