Tomoe - A handwriting recognition engine

We released tomoe-0.6.0, tomoe-gtk-0.6.0, scim-tomoe-0.6.0 and uim-tomoe-gtk-0.6.0.

Changes from 0.5.x:

• Simplified Chinese dictionary. (Thanks Red Hat engineers!)
• Enhanced Japanese dictionary (support JIS X 0208 level2).
• Choose default dictionary automatically according to current locale.
  However currently no dictionary will be enabled with most locales except ja and zh_CN, and on-demand language switching is not implemented yet. Please use tomoe application with ja or zh_CN locale like this:

  $ LANG=zh_CN uim-tomoe-gtk
  $ LANG=ja scim-tomoe
  ...
  

• Rename the package name of libtomoe-gtk to tomoe-gtk.
• Add tomoe_gtk_init() and tomoe_gtk_quit(). Although tomoe_window_new() calls tomoe_gtk_init() internally for compatibility reason, it is recommended to call tomoe_gtk_init() manually in your code.
• Add --with-gucharmap option to tomoe-gtk.
• Python binding.
• Some minor fixes.

Download:

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=193138

In addition to it, you can find stroke-editor for tomoe handwriting dictionary from our subversion repository.

• http://tomoe.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tomoe/

This is also Red Hat engineer's work. Thanks a lot.

Thanks to Red Hat engineers, a stroke editor for Tomoe has been added to our subversion repository. You can edit Tomoe's handwriting dictionary by using it.

Red Hat engineers also developing a Chineses dictionary. Tomoe will support Chinese in the neer future!

To make the Tomoe as international project, we decided that we move our web site from SourceForge.jp to SourceForge.net. Now moving ML and subversion reposigory has been completed.

You can find new mailing-lists and subversion repository from our project summary page on the SourceForge.net.

Also old MLs will be continued for discussing in Japanese.

We released tomoe-0.5 series at last few months. Sorry for late announce on the web.

Changes from tomoe-0.3.0:

• Shortening startup time.
• Modularization handwriting recognizer and dictionary loader.
• Merge Unihan database
• MySQL backend
• Hyper Estraier baeckend
• Reconstruct and GObjectize all API.
• Release from libxml.
• Ruby binding.
• Test suite based on Ruby binding.
• Temporary some editing features has been removed for arranging UI.
• EUDC (End User Defined Character) management feature.

Download:

• tomoe-0.5.1
• libtomoe-gtk-0.5.1
• uim-tomoe-gtk-0.5.0
• scim-tomoe-0.5.0

We released tomoe-0.3.0 at 29 Oct, 2006. This release mainly contains the result of Google's Summer of Code.

Changes from tomoe-0.2.0:

• XML/Internationalized dictionary.
• Enable to convert other type of dictionaries by XSLT.
• Searching from plural dictionaries.
• Enable to add new handwring letters by GUI.
• Add a handwringing data viewer.
• Search characters by reading.
• Show meta data of characters.

Download:

• tomoe-0.3.0
• libtomoe-gtk-0.3.0
• uim-tomoe-gtk-0.3.0
• scim-tomoe-0.3.0

Please see the UTUMI Hirosi's document to know how to add new characters into the Tomoe's dictionary.

On Google Summer of Code, we proposed some subjects to improve Tomoe as a part of FSIJ's project. Although we've not received applications from Japanese students, we've received some applications from other countries.

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