Decuma™ is a new class of input for pen-based devices. By fusing industry leading handwriting and predictive text technology, the result is an exceptional new user experience. Decuma recognizes naturally shaped letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation in more than 70 languages. There is no need to adjust to a prescribed writing style or learn a special alphabet. Decuma superior handwriting recognition now predicts words as you write, cutting the time it can take to enter lengthy words in half. Decuma learns your preferred vocabulary, including new words. Shortcuts can be added to abbreviate commonly-used phrases, making entering your email address as easy as drawing a symbol. Decuma operates in a panel display and in full-screen mode.

Key Features

Decuma Alphabetic recognizes 100% naturally shaped letters in upper and lower cases, numbers and symbols/punctuation. There is no need to adjust to a particular writing style, learn a special alphabet, or manually switch between character sets or input modes. It supports 70 languages with Word completion and bi-lingual.
Decuma Arabic has the capability to predict whole words as a user is writing each letter. Prediction opens up a new experience to users, delivering speed and usability surpassed by simply handwriting each and every letter or character of a word.
Decuma Chinese is patented in the People's Republic of China and is fully certified with Chinese regulatory bodies governing software and input. Decuma's Patented Geometrical Invariant Technology (GIT) algorithm, which enables "fuzzy" matching in input to characters, enables it to recognize virtually any handwriting. The solution also supports all relevant characters sets including GB2312, Big 5 and HKSCS. Decuma Chinese recognizes natural characters by shape and stroke style. Modeless entry for printed, semi-cursive and common cursive characters, alphabetic letters, punctuation and special symbols. And it can be easily localized for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese for Hong Kong and for Taiwan. Decuma Chinese also supports Phonetic input systems in Pinyin or Bopomofo with Phrasal Text Input features Decuma Chinese supports Users-defined shortcuts for frequently used Chinese phrases, Used word dictionary to track and promote frequently used Chinese characters or phrases as priority-ranked predictions Personal dictionary to record the user’s own Chinese phrases
Decuma Japanese supports all the different writing styles in Japanese writing. It also recognizes in non-standard stroke order and in cursive form. Standard input — Use any script style used in Japanese writing, including Kanji, Kana, alphabetic letters, numbers and punctuation/symbols Kana input — Entry of Hiragana and Katakana Alphanumeric input — Entry of alphabetic letters, numbers and punctuation/symbols

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