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Doesn't work very well if at all. I tried two times a very simple Chinese character (木) and it was never in the result list. Edit: didn't work with a very simple cuneiform character either.


On the page right now:

> Currently, there are 11817 unicode character glyphs in the database. Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters are currently not supported.


The main reason something like this might be useful (since I live near Chinese neighborhoods in the SF Bay Area) would be to recognize Chinese characters, at least those that aren't too difficult to draw. So I hope they can be added.


There's many good existing pieces of software specialised in recognising handwritten CJK characters, which understand stroke order and so on. I think the value of this piece of software is that it's for everything else.


Why? All OS have IMEs built in, all of which are vastly better at recognizing which character you drew than this can ever be.


Google Translate has a handwriting mode, and an image recognition mode.


It does recognize Hiragana


It doesn't recognize any Chinese character for me, maybe not trained with a font containing those characters?




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