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Hi,

I don't think this nifty new project has been mentioned on the list
yet so I wanted to let people know about its existence. This project
basically resuscitates an old project called "Aアあ" which purpose was
to define kanji in SVG format.

http://kanjivg.tagaini.net/

I think that the data provided by that project can be useful for our
subject of interest (handwriting recognition ;-) !) too. Here are some
key differences I noticed with the data in Tomoe:

- The strokes are defined in terms of lines and bézier curves. It
should be possible to use these data for training / testing by
sampling points.

- The kanji look more natural. This suggests that they are good
candidates as test data. Recognizers like zinnia can be tuned /
improved so as to maximize the accuracy against this set.

- Information about radicals and stroke components is provided meaning
that the structure information can potentially be used to improve
accuracy or speed up recognition.

Best regards,
Mathieu Blondel

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply. (And sorry for the delay in mine, I
didn't realize digests were once-a-month. Switched to non-digest
mode.)

Thanks for the info on zinnia. Actually, I think the stroke data in
tomoe may be quite useful to me.

I'm also looking for data to be used not for recognition, but to
display proper stroke order to the end user. While there are a number
of sites on the Internet that serve this purpose, I'm still looking
for one that offers the data in a format I could import. Would you
happen to know of any?

Thank you very much for your time.
-- Enrique


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:46 PM,
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> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:54:12 +0900
> From: Taku Kudo <ta...@ch...>
> Subject: [tomoe-devel 249] Re: Custom Kanji recognition engine
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> Hi,
>
> How about using Zinnia? http://zinnia.sourceforge.net/
> Tomoe recognizer is Unix-oriented so, it would be hard to use
> it non-Uinux environment. Zinnia is more portable than Tomoe recognizer and
> officially supports Windows. There are several applications running on
> different operating system including iPhone :-)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i88uaIu3Khk
>
> Actually, Zinnia uses a Tomoe's hand writing data to generate a model of
> recognizer.
>
> Thanks.
>