Thursday, July 26, 2012

Google Brings Handwriting Feature for Search

After searches by voice and images, Google released on Thursday afternoon  a feature that allows users of tablets and smartphones do web searches by handwriting on the screen of your device. "The handwriting allows the user to use their fingers to write the letters across the screen of their phones without keyboards that take up half the screen or keys that must be found and pressed."


The handwriting recognition system is now available in 27 languages for devices with iOS 5, phones with Android 2.3 and Android 4.0 tablets. The news is that exempt the installation of applications to run. To use just the user to access Google on your device, go to Settings and enable the Script Search and click Save. Google says the system "works best" in Chrome.

However, the tests for this post shows that the action has some flaws. In a Motorola Milestone 2 with Android 2.3, it was necessary to draw large letters, as the browser and hardware limitations just could not regstrar fine. Once the character was recognized, disappeared from the screen and freed space for other letter was written. The process is not exactly slow, but not exactly fluid.