Mary, The drawing pad for Chinese (and Japanese) do character-by-character handwriting recognition. Mostly, it's designed for finding the type- written characters that are not initially recognized by the pinyin input. It's not really designed for extensive hand-writing recognition. If you are working on a Tablet PC, there is a a component for Chinese and Japanese that seems to do the full-fledged handwriting recognition as it does for English. I've only tested it briefly, but it did a decent job. But you must be using the Tablet PC edition of Windows, and on a tablet. I hope that helps. Foreign Language Technology http://go.carleton.edu/f Carly J. Born Academic Technologies, Team Lead Carleton College | 507-646-7010 | [log in to unmask] On Oct 1, 2007, at 12:38 PM, LLTI-Editor wrote: > --- Forwarded Message from "Toulouse, Mary T" > <[log in to unmask]> --- > >> From: "Toulouse, Mary T" <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: handwriting recognition in Chinese >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:10:58 -0400 > > Hi folks, > Our new professor of Chinese would like handwriting recognition > installed on > our PC's for use in Word in Chinese. We can enable handwriting > recognition in > English by using writing pad. However, when we go to regional > settings > > languages >Chinese, we can only enable drawing pad, which does not > convert > drawn Chinese characters into text. Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > Mary > > > > Mary Toulouse > Director of the Foreign Language Resource Center > Lafayette College > Easton, PA 18042 > > Tel: 610-3305265 > Fax: 610-330-5656 > > > *********************************************** > LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for > Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for > Language Teaching > and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). > Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. > Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) > ***********************************************