SoftWriting by Martin Klinkigt (English translation) See original article in German www.multimedia-test.de Why not to let your computer do the typing With SoftWriting you can have your handwritten texts transformed, so that you can, for example, process these texts in Word. All you need is a computer and a scanner. Transformation The transformation takes place very quickly and easily. The papers are scanned by pressing a button and afterwards it is transformed to text. Now follows the correction-reading, where SoftWriting marks the words about which it is insecure. These have to be corrected almost always. If words are written in blue, SoftWriting is not 100% sure, although, here in most cases it is correct or only one letter is wrong. After correction the text is saved without any effort as a word-file and is ready for further work. Exactness The recognition rate is quite remarkable. One has to keep in mind, that this is no regular OCR text-recognition software but that the individual handwriting should be recognized. With a little bit of training of the software, after four scanned pages, a recognition rate of 99% is possible. When we tried it, the rate after two pages was already 70%. Handwriting SoftWriting is concerning your handwriting very easy to satisfy. But with real script the software does not work. The first document is sent to the internet server without real benefit. Probably the recognition is too complicated. With handwritten block letters SoftWriting adjust itself very quickly to your handwriting. This way good results can be reached. Conclusion SoftWriting can be recommended to everyone who need their handwritten papers as text-files in the computer. If you want to be sure about your handwriting, CharacTell offers at its homepage a full functioning 14-day test version for download.