IRIS

A very nice tool is the IRIS pen which is an OCR-translator in the shape of a pen. It is developed by a Belgium compagny. It has a special Asian edition : the IRISPen
Homepage of I.R.I.S.

Tablet PC

Microsoft's pen-based Tablet PC runs a modified version of it's Windows XP called "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition". It's available in both traditional and simplified Chinese. Tablet PC's are manufactered by major compagnies like Legend and Acer.
These Tablet PC's are more and more overtaken by smartphones and tablets running Android or iOS.

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My dissertation Hello Chinese! got published in 2002. It's a practical reference guide for using Chinese on the computer. More info


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