Advanced handwriting recognition developed for iPhone, iPod Touch

12 Jun 2009

Software products and professional services provider for mobile and desktop computers, PhatWare Corporation, has announces the release of three new products for iPhone and iPod Touch - WritePad Affairs, WritePad Events, and WritePad Notes.

All three products use WritePad text editor with built-in handwriting recognition and advanced editing features for text input.

WritePad is a text editor developed specifically for iPhone and featuring handwriting recognition input for cursive, print, and mixed handwriting styles, in addition to an iPhone soft keyboard. Further, WritePad supports multilevel undo and redo, cut, copy, and paste commands, text selection, and includes a spell checker. It also offers a text analyzer allowing users to dial phone numbers or open URLs embedded in the text.

Advanced features of WritePad's handwriting recognition engine include a user dictionary, intelligent handwriting recognition which improves recognition quality over time, and an auto-corrector which automatically fixes common spelling and recognition errors. WritePad's shorthand feature allows users to perform editing commands, insert current date and time and repetitive text by writing a short name and drawing a circle around it, and simple gestures to perform standard editing commands.

WritePad Affairs assists users with organising daily tasks, jobs, and contracts. Users can create, edit, and view items in landscape or portrait mode; sort items by due date, subject, priority, color, category, and status; filter by text found in the subject; export and import items via CSV files compatible with Microsoft Outlook Tasks format; and copy/paste text between items.

WritePad Events enables users to create, edit, and view events in landscape and portrait mode; sort events by date, subject, priority, color, and category; filter events by characters or words found in the subject; export and import events via CSV file compatible with Microsoft Outlook Journal format; and copy/paste text between events.

WritePad Notes is a notes organiser for creating, editing, and viewing notes on an iPhone. The application offers landscape and portrait mode and enables users to sort notes by subject, color, and category and filter notes by characters or words found in the subject. It also allows them to export and import CSV compatible notes compatible with Microsoft Outlook Notes and PhatWare PhatNotes formats and copy/paste text between notes.

WritePad Affairs, Notes, and Events Editions include HTTP file server, which provides access to WritePad data files via WiFi from the desktop computer using practically any Internet borrower. PhatWare also offers WritePad Sync Lite, a free application for Windows and MAC OS, which can be used to quickly find one or more WritePad servers on the local WiFi network and launch the default internet browser.