Handwriting Recognition

I've spent the spare time of the last weeks hacking on something intersting I found in the net.

Sun Microsystems has been developing a handwriting recognition framework (so you can load recognition engines into your applications) several years ago (14). They even included a sample recognition engine implementation with it (based upon a talk from 1991, GPL source code).

I spent the time porting the Xaw demo application to GTK+ and adjusting the API to be similar to GTK+/GNOME APIs. I think I'm going to spend more time with this project as it might become a really important addition to the free software world.