Puzzle technology startup Puzzazz is giving Amazon's Kindle Touch a capability that even Amazon didn't envision — letting users input numbers and letters by writing them naturally with a finger on the screen, rather than tapping at the e-reader's tiny on-screen keyboard.
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The new TouchWrite technology, developed internally by Puzzazz, recognizes those invisible scribbles and converts them into visible numbers and letters on screen. The technology makes its debut today in the startup's newest puzzle e-book, Sudoku Unbound Volume 3.
Unlike some handwriting-recognition from years past, the TouchWrite technology doesn't require users to learn any special way of writing, and it recognizes many different styles of writing different numbers and letters. Puzzazz founder Roy Leban says the company used extensive handwriting samples in the process of developing the technology.
It's the latest effort by the Seattle-area startup to improve the experience of using e-books, through its lineup of digital puzzle books.......
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