ZPDA  (250-3100)       Handwriting Recognition Tips    Faxback Doc. # 2641


HANDWRITING RECOGNITION TIPS

The unit recognizes hand printed letters and numbers. You can enter hand
printed characters in text fields or on the sketch page. When you use hand
printed characters in the field or on the sketch page when the Text tool is
active, your hand-printed characters are converted into typed characters.

The following tips will help the unit recognize your handwriting:

- Print each letter or number clearly. Each character needs to be clear
  enough to be recognized. You can use upper or lower case letters.
- Keep your letters upright. Try not to write letters with a slant.
- Use as few strokes as possible in writing a letter.
- Make sure you keep the pen on the screen as you write--you don't need to
  press down hard, but you don't want to hold the pen so lightly that it
  doesn't make good contact with the screen.
- Don't write too slowly.
- Print large characters. You can use the whole dialog box.
- If the position that the ink appears on the screen doesn't match the
  position of the pen, you need to recalibrate the pen.
- To write several words, write one below another so that the unit inserts
  spaces between the words correctly.
- Some characters are so similar they can't be distinguished by the computer--
  characters such as Z and 2, S and 5. O and 0. and l and 1.

(clh-09/27/93)