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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Tamil computing options

Karthik Subramanian

Optical character recognition software is one of highlights

Software optimised to understand variations of Tamil handwriting

Computer users can employ the graphics tablet or the mouse

CHENNAI: An optical character recognition software that seamlessly converts what is written on a graphics tablet into Tamil characters on screen and a collection of over 300 Tamil fonts were the highlights of the "Tamil-Computer-Print" exhibition which ended at Valluvar Kottam in Chennai on Sunday.

`Ponpena,' the OCR software developed by city-based Learnfun Systems, is said to be a user-independent software that will help users directly export the words written on the graphics tablet on to a text editor.

V. Krishnamoorthy of Learnfun Systems said the software had been optimised to understand several variations of Tamil handwriting. Computer users can either employ the graphics tablet — an input device that digitises the input from a flat notebook-like panel — or the mouse to write the Tamil text.

The tablet, though, is the preferred mode of input because of its ease of use.

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