Ink Analysis Overview The InkAnalysis APIs provide Tablet PC
developers with powerful tools to programmatically examine ink
input. The API classifies ink into meaningful categories such as
words, lines, paragraphs, and drawings. You can use each
classification in a variety of ways, including improving
recognition results for handwriting. This section introduces the
Tablet PC Platform ink analysis technology and explains when and
how to use it. The InkAnalysis APIs effectively combine two
distinct but complimentary technologies: handwriting recognition
and layout classification. Combining these two technologies
gives definitively greater results than the parts taken alone.
Handwriting recognition is the computational analysis of
handwritten digital ink to return character-based interpretation
in a given language. That is, handwriting recognition is how the
computer "reads" a person's handwriting. Ink Analysis can be
further broken down into ink classification and layout analysis.
Ink classification is the comp