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Handwriting Recognition

Thanks to the Microsoft Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition for mobile pen computers, digital ink can be a pervasive input method in Medscribbler. "Inking" is a broad industry initiative that builds on the digital pen, digital ink, and speech technologies of Microsoft Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition. With pen and speech input, wireless support, long battery life, and portability, Tablet PCs are definitely the next step in the evolution of the PC.

More Intuitive To Users

In many situations, handwriting is a more natural input method for placing data into applications. Inking makes Medscribbler as an EMR (electronic medical record) more convenient and available to users. Standing beside an exam table and moving from room to room are situations where fiddling with a keyboard is challenging.

How Digital Ink Works

Inking is actually a broad term that represents a set of technologies. A number of technologies had to come together to make inking possible. Many teams across Microsoft® — including Microsoft® Research teams on several continents — were involved in solving the technological challenges that came together as inking.

The Value of Digital Ink

The inking process gives users the choice of converting the handwritten data to standard text through handwriting recognition. Users can also preserve the data in its ink format — keep ink as ink — and lose none of the data functionality. Hand-drawn or written ink need not be converted to a different format to be saved, sent, or otherwise manipulated by Medscribbler.