Handwriting Recognition

Qt Virtual Keyboard supports handwriting recognition through open source and commercially-licensed engines.

There are two modes in which to write: using the more compact handwriting panel (as shown above), or fullscreen.

For instructions on how to activate and use the handwriting input mode, see the User Guide.

For information about building Qt Virtual Keyboard with a particular handwriting engine, see Configuration Options.

Cerence Handwriting

Cerence Handwriting is a commercial handwriting recognition engine.

Cerence Handwriting works with all languages supported by the virtual keyboard.

  • Supported Languages

See also: Cerence Handwriting Integration

See also: Cerence XT9 Advanced Input

MyScript

MyScript SDK is a commercial handwriting recognition engine.

MyScript SDK supports 72 handwriting recognition languages:

  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Azeri, Azerbaijani
  • Basque
  • Belarusian (Cyrillic)
  • Bosnian (Latin)
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Cebuano
  • Chinese Simplified
  • Chinese Traditional - Hong Kong
  • Chinese Traditional - Taiwan
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch, Flemish
  • Dutch
  • English - Canada
  • English - Philippines
  • English - South Africa
  • English - United Kingdom
  • English - United States
  • Estonian
  • Farsi, Persian
  • Filipino, Pilipino, Tagalog
  • Finnish
  • French - Canada
  • French - France
  • Galician
  • Georgian
  • German - Austria
  • German - Germany
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Indonesian
  • Irish, Ireland Gaelic
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kazakh
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Macedonian
  • Malagasy
  • Malay
  • Mongolian
  • Norwegian, Nordic Bokmal
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Portuguese - Portugal
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian (Cyrillic)
  • Serbian (Latin)
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian, Slovene
  • Spanish - Colombia
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Spanish - Mexico
  • Swahili (Latin)
  • Swedish
  • Tatar (Cyrillic)
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Vietnamese

MyScript is integrated into Qt Virtual Keyboard with identical coverage of supported languages.

  • Supported Languages

However, with minor modifications to the Qt Virtual Keyboard source code, it is easy to add handwriting panels for other languages supported by MyScript.

To get the MyScript SDK or additional information, please contact MyScript at [email protected].

See also: MyScript Text SDK Integration

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