I'd like to announce 漢識 Boom!, a handwriting recognition software for Japanese Kanjis.
It is available at http://dueck.org/kanshiki-boom/ Currently, it will be useful mainly for learners of the Japanese language, as * it requires the user to use the official stroke order and direction (although I added some variants that are often used by Japanese) * it is able to recognize only the 2000 basic Kanjis (I am using Todd Rubick's unistrok file, with minor changes). It is still beta quality, I guess, but do give it a try and let me know of any issues, preferably via the @-button in the program itself. Why do I announce it here? * It's written in Clojure - which rocks, as we all (except this one guy recently who threatened to unsubscribe from the group if someone responds to his post ;) know very well * If there's enough interest in the algorithm and the implementation of it in Clojure, I might also post/blog about it and GPL the source code And finally, this program works for me, so I am using it as-is and I stopped improving it. But real users (if any) giving feedback would probably motivate me to iron out any remaining issues and to turn this into something that is useful for a broader audience - and I do have a lot of ideas for improvement, just not the motivation to do it right now. Examples: * support kana * detect radicals / let user compose kanjis out of radicals * fine-tune the recognition algorithm * switch to a different data set, so recognition can be better, we get more kanjis and this can actually be useful for advanced and even native Japanese speakers Cheers Eugen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
