- Qt 6.8
- Qt Virtual Keyboard
- Handwriting Recognition
- Qt Virtual Keyboard | Commercial or GPLv3

# Handwriting Recognition

Qt Virtual Keyboard supports handwriting recognition through open source and commercially-licensed engines.

There are two modes in which to write: using the more compact handwriting panel (as shown above), or fullscreen.

For instructions on how to activate and use the handwriting input mode, see the User Guide.

For information about building Qt Virtual Keyboard with a particular handwriting engine, see Configuration Options.

## Example Handwriting

The Example Handwriting Plugin offers a simulated handwriting recognition experience producing random characters regardless of what is written. It serves as a tool for examining handwriting layouts and as a foundation for developing new plugins.

## Cerence Handwriting

Cerence Handwriting is a commercial handwriting recognition engine.

Cerence Handwriting works with all languages supported by the virtual keyboard.

- Supported Languages

See also: Cerence Handwriting Integration

See also: Cerence XT9 Advanced Input

## MyScript

MyScript SDK is a commercial handwriting recognition engine.

MyScript SDK supports 72 handwriting recognition languages:

Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azeri, Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian (Cyrillic) Bosnian (Latin) Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional - Hong Kong Chinese Traditional - Taiwan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch, Flemish | Dutch English - Canada English - Philippines English - South Africa English - United Kingdom English - United States Estonian Farsi, Persian Filipino, Pilipino, Tagalog Finnish French - Canada French - France Galician Georgian German - Austria German - Germany Greek Hebrew | Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish, Ireland Gaelic Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malagasy Malay Mongolian Norwegian, Nordic Bokmal Polish Portuguese - Brazil | Portuguese - Portugal Romanian Russian Serbian (Cyrillic) Serbian (Latin) Slovak Slovenian, Slovene Spanish - Colombia Spanish - Spain Spanish - Mexico Swahili (Latin) Swedish Tatar (Cyrillic) Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese

MyScript is integrated into Qt Virtual Keyboard with identical coverage of supported languages.

- Supported Languages

However, with minor modifications to the Qt Virtual Keyboard source code, it is easy to add handwriting panels for other languages supported by MyScript.

To get the MyScript SDK or additional information, please contact MyScript at qt@myscript.com.

See also: MyScript Text SDK Integration