Japanese Handwriting Character Recognition Availbl

[ShiroiKuma]

I've finally made a great breakthrough and compiled Tomoe for SCIM. This is Japanese handwriting recognition for X.

This was one thing because of which I hesitated for long to leave the Sharp ROM. Especially for students of Japanese, handwriting recognition is essential, because it enables you to look up unknown Kanji by drawing them. Tomoe usage.

To use it, download and install:
scim_1.4.3_arm.ipk
libtomoe_0.1.0_arm.ipk
scim-tomoe_0.1.0_arm.ipk
tomoe_0.2.1_arm.ipk

Export the following variables:
GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
QT_IM_MODULE=scim
XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"
XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM

Then run "scim". If you click on the scim toolbar that'll appear you can select handwriting recognition.

The only problem is, the font Tomoe uses is a little too big, so you don't see the full Kanji that it offers as recognized:
 [ Invalid Attachment ]
It's probably some config thing, haven't looked into it yet. If anyone knows, please let me know.

[Snappy]

trying it out ...

[Snappy]

I'm having trouble installing it as I cannot seem to ask the Package manager to install to anything else other than / ... how do I configure it to install to sd. I know ipkg-install allows the destination option in command line, but I seem to remember that there is a version of Package Manager that allows that.

Advanced Package Manager?

[ShiroiKuma]

To hell with package manager, why are you even bothering with it...  

ipkg -d sd install scim...

[Snappy]

I keep getting errors when doing "ipkg -d sd install scim_1.4.4_arm.ipk" :

"ipkg: invalid compressed data - - format violated"

I redownloaded the file and it still has the same errors.

I'm installing on Hentges OZ/GPE 3.5.4.1 ...

The same thing happened when I tried to install abiword earlier ...

Any ideas?

[ShiroiKuma]

I keep getting errors when doing "ipkg -d sd install scim_1.4.4_arm.ipk" :

"ipkg: invalid compressed data - - format violated"

I redownloaded the file and it still has the same errors.

I'm installing on Hentges OZ/GPE 3.5.4.1 ...

The same thing happened when I tried to install abiword earlier ...

Any ideas?
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Yep, just discovered my scim_1.4.4 is messed up. Just download [a href=\"http://naismith.sakura.ne.jp/feed-jp/scim_1.4.3_arm.ipk]SCIM 1.4.3 from here[/url], it works, and download the rest of the packages from my site, they work, are checked, and it'll work fine...

[Snappy]

Thanks thanks thanks!

Downloading now ...

[rolf]

I've finally made a great breakthrough and compiled Tomoe for SCIM. This is Japanese handwriting recognition for X.

GREAT!

I am/was in the same situation as you, not being able to dump SharpROM because of Japanese input.  Will Tomoe run on SL-5500?  Have you submitted the bb file to Openembedded.org?

Do you know about http://gakusei.sf.net ?  I'd like to add you as a dev if you are interested.  AlexTe from gakusei was recently able to compile nunome and pobox for OpenZaurus.  We are also working on anthy.  Before long, there will be a slew of Japanese input methods.  This is really awesome news. I hope we can continue this momentum.

Would you be so kind to publish the bb files as well so that they can be included in OE main tree?